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Kristy McGinnis

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Kristy spent her childhood as a Navy "brat" and her adult years first as a service member and then as a Coast Guard wife. A lifelong wanderer and now emptynester, she's set permanent anchor in Virginia Beach, Virginia with her husband and that most rascally of rascals- her cat Percy. When not plucking away at her keyboard or eagerly devouring every book she can get her hands on; she enjoys theater, beach combing, hiking, wine tasting, and obsessively planning the next journey. ...more

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The Broken Circle: A Memoir of Escaping Afghanistan

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“So bitter is the taste in my mouth, when I remember making that choice.”
― Kristy McGinnis, Ellipsis

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“Sanitized, cleaned, my house was a mausoleum and the ghost it housed was me.”
― Kristy McGinnis, Ellipsis

tags: agoraphobia, ghost, haunted, house, lonliness, memories-with-children, solitary-life

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“At what point was it morally reprehensible to bring a life into a chaotic, toxic world?”
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“There is the sanity you feel, and there is the sanity you display. Most people don’t really care about the first one; they just wanted permission to avoid your crisis.”
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“The words he couldn’t quite say out loud, would spill out in amber, copper, and red from the mouth of his brush. His paintings said I love you. I love you and I won’t leave you.”
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“As humans, our sense of doom is grossly overstated in literature and movies.”
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“The worst is what happens when you’re blithely going about the dogged routine of your life, those moments when you’ve forgotten to have a guard up at all.”
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“Sanitized, cleaned, my house was a mausoleum and the ghost it housed was me.”
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