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Granana doesn't understand what the big deal is. She didn't cry at Olivia's funeral, and I doubt she even remembers Olivia's name. Granana lost, like, ninety-two million kids in childbirth. All of her brothers died in the war. She survived the Depression by stealing radish bulbs from her neighbors' garden, and fishing the elms for pigeons. Dad likes to remind us of this in a grave voice, as if it explained her jaundiced pitilessness: "Boys. Your grandmother ate pigeons.
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― St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
― St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
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In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.
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