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Jesmyn Ward

“Both of us on the cusp of adulthood, and this is how my brother and I understood what it meant to be a woman: working, dour, full of worry. What it meant to be a man: resentful, angry, wanting life to be everything but what it was.”

Jesmyn Ward, Men We Reaped: A Memoir
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