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When you are small, if you reach out, and nobody takes your hand, you stop reaching out, and reach inside, instead.
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Is reading a sport?
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she had to admit the essential difference between Iain and herself: he believed in the possibility of a carnation-strewn, uncomplicated life, and Lola did not. perhaps Iain had thought he could convince her, but grew weary of the endeavor.
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as she walked back to her husband, lola thought about lying on her expensive sheets and holding a baby - their baby - to her breast. to the baby, lola would smell like a mother, and the ridiculous chandelier would look like stars.
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When you're small, if you reach out, and nobody takes your hand, you stop reaching out, and reach inside, instead.
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also, i wanted to kiss you, said lola. come here, said emmett.
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and sure enough, emmett's voice rose above the din. at some point, though, a mistake becomes a decision, whether you like it or not. in this, my husband and i were fundamentally different. in my opinion, a mistake required a getaway.
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I hope you'll never know how sadness can twist your heart, and make you a stranger to yourself.
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It was a place you could make into a home if your home hadn't worked out.
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But you never feel things so deeply--so strongly--as you do in high school. You
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genetic workup showed I had a BRCA1 mutation, I chose to undergo chemo and have my breasts removed. (That was an aggressive course of action, and I had no regrets. My
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My mother told me that when Jane and I were born, all her dreams had come true. I
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No matter how much I pushed, she refused to have the genetic screening that could save her life. I
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It's okay," I said, holding her, starting to cry myself. "It's not okay," said Jane. "But it's the way it is."
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I was surrounded by people. A hundred men, some women, my brother, Ernesto. No one did anything as the man pulled my pants down. No one intervened--not even God--as
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