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A perfect family, I think, is one that's learned how to forgive.
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Where are these perfect families? Is it yours? Your friend's, your neighbor's? I don't think you can just point one out. The ones we're most likely to admire are simply the ones with the best-kept secrets. No, the real perfect families, they have warts and bruises and scars. They had to screw up and admit their mistakes. They had to do everything wrong so they could learn how to do few things right. They had to hate so they could know what ..
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the same conclusion . . . She found the photo she wanted, a high-res close-up of the recovered shell casing, also dusted and documented at the scene. Like the whiskey bottle, it bore a distinct ridge pattern. D.D. pulled the image, placed it next to the one of the fifth of whiskey. "Advantage of the Amber Alert," D.D. stated now. "I have the city's full investigative and forensic resources at my disposal." Meaning she could demand a rush jo..
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five toddlers on this block alone. Two of the girls in Becky's class lived just four blocks over. There were a number of boys as well, though most of them were too young for Danny. Sandy had always thought that was a shame. It was so easy for Becky to find someone to play with, whereas Danny had to be driven to someone's house. That took planning. That took having a parent home to serve as chauffeur. Danny had never complained, though. He s..
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can't do this. I suck at this. Which is why they're making me go. Not to improve my swimming--who cares about that?--but to work on that whole playing-well-with-others thing. Another one of my broken bits. I don't want to socialize with other kids. I don't trust 'em, I don't like 'em, and best I can tell, the feeling's mutual.
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Families aren't built in a day. But they can be destroyed in an instant.
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study. Something you can write up for the American Society of Shrinks--otherwise known
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I don't know who I am," I say. "No one does. Everyone spends their lives figuring that out, even people who've never been kidnapped."
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Warn a kid with oppositional defiant disorder not to do something, and you've pretty much guaranteed the crime.
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In the wake of the recent shootings, several school districts have implemented 'student profiling.' School administrators have a checklist of 'suspicious' behavior to use to evaluate each student's potential for violence.
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but I'm still the child of an abusive alcoholic and we don't make great parent material.
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Because what is love if not an exercise in faith. Because what is love if not perseverance. Because what is love if not forgiveness.
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with his daughter." "Incest?" Rainie looked at Quincy incredulously. "Jesus, SupSpAg, how do you sleep with that mind?" "I can't be sure," Quincy said modestly, "but it has all the classic signs. Domineering father alone with his young daughter for the first thirteen years of her life. Seems very doting on the outside. I'm sure if you conducted further interviews you'd find plenty of neighbors and teachers telling you how 'close' Mr. Avalon..
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even further, and I shivered inside my wool coat as I trudged back to my car, two grocery bags in hand. I wanted to go home, but I still had the crushed vials. Where could you dispose of broken glass and no one would notice?
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Basically, that snapshot the smart fridge took to help you figure out what fruit to buy might also include a view of your ex-husband's dead body, which you'd planned on burying later in the day with the shovel Alexa had ordered for you from Amazon.
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That brought D.D. up short.
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Je ne veux plus faire de cauchemars. Je ne veux plus chercher a atteindre une petite fille que je ne peux pas sauver. Le monde est cruel. Notre boulot est sans espoir. Je ne sais meme plus comment aimer. J'ai juste besoin de hair.
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Special Agent Quincy had earned his stripes as one of the Bureau's finest profilers.
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And how many episodes of being "not yourself" do you get before people figure out this is who you really are? I"
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couloir etroit en l'aidant a contourner les obstacles, a savoir les cames en
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constant budget crises, the going rate for protecting
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Being at the easternmost edge of the time zone, Massachusetts has one of the first sunrises in the country.
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Tuesday, 10:03 p.m. PST
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I've held a beating pulse between my fingers and I've squeezed. And it's the best goddamn feeling in the world. DIFFORD:
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BECKETT: Do you know what I dream of, Difford? Do you know what I think about every night? I dream of the day I see my wife again. I picture sliding my hands around her neck and feeling her hands flail against my chest. I envision choking her to the edge of unconsciousness. And then, while she's lying there, staring at me helplessly, I pick up a dull Swiss Army knife and hack off her fingers one by one. Then her ears. Then her nose. And the..
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go one of two ways--an underachieving drunk or an overachieving workaholic. Since
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Shit! We're idiots.
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A child's bonds with his or her mother are extremely powerful, so any negativity in the mother is being communicated to the child.
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wounds. No petechial hemorrhages, which rules out strangulation. No bleeding in the ears, which eliminates some brain traumas. We do have a large
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elementary school. I'd worked hard to find the apartment, hoping that a nice unit,
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Society is not filled with evil souls. But it is filled with people who are mobile, fractured, overworked, overweight, overcrowded, and overtired. That's a potent combination, particularly for people with poor coping skills and volatile tempers. And we're seeing the proof of that in the increasing number of impulsive, angry acts, such as mass murders and road rage." Rainie sighed. She rubbed her temples."
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My mother would watch him and sigh. He's a young soul, she would say, with a tender heart. She worried for him. But never for me. I was the happy one. At least, that's how the story goes.
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Not to mention there are at least seven locks between you and the outside world. First lock is on your cell door. Get by
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considers this case a slam dunk." "So you're pleading not guilty," Quincy said."
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do-gooder.
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turned out, a giant well of emptiness had always existed inside me. A void so deep and black and ugly, I wasn't just empty, I was hollowed out by the losses in my life. Until there were days I didn't dare go outside because I worried the wind would blow me away. The pills became my
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Once, when she'd taken the initiative to rub down the window casings with ammonia, Jim had even complimented her. She'd beamed at him, married one year, already eight months pregnant and as eager as a lapdog for his sparing praise. Later, Lieutenant Difford had explained to her how ammonia was one of the few substances that rid surfaces of fingerprints.
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Oh no. I don't do children. They're small, needy, easily destroyed. Let's be honest. I've come a long way from my family history,
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Bad people don't want to deal with the powerful. They prey on the weak.
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to transfer her rage after all. She wanted David Price dead. And then, for the first time, she truly understood Griffin. And then, for the first time, she had an inkling of an idea. The front door opened and shut. Laurie, who had gone out to get the mail, walked into the family room, sifting through the pile. She came
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this is the way sisters have
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MY PAIN IS NAMED
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created the first fake company approximately
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intentions don't matter in parenting. Kids don't understand what you mean. They understand what you do.
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