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Explaining the Jews in a Catholic school when you’re Irish is like having to explain your country’s foreign policy while on a vacation in France. You don’t know what you’re talking about and no matter what you say, they’re not going to like it anyway.
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― No Time to Say Goodbye: A Memoir of a Life in Foster Care
― No Time to Say Goodbye: A Memoir of a Life in Foster Care
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Denny thought our parents needed a combination of material goods and temperamental changes before he could return home.
“If Dad buys Ma a car, then she’ll love him, and they’ll get back together and she won’t be all crazy anymore,” he said. For years he held out the possibility that those things would happen and all would change. “If we had more things, like stoves and cars,” he told me at night in our bedroom, “and Ma wasn’t like she is, we could go home.
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― No Time to Say Goodbye: A Memoir of a Life in Foster Care
― No Time to Say Goodbye: A Memoir of a Life in Foster Care
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