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“There are people who need our stories. These individuals are just hidden from our view. We need to put ourselves out there because maybe our stories will validate theirs.”
― Janine Myung Ja, Adoption Stories

tags: adopted, validation

30 likes

“Al has known more than one unfortunate soul that has lost his ability to talk, after forgetting to hold his tongue.”
― Gary Edward Gedall

tags: humour

8 likes

“The road to power is forged with lies and lives,” Loch says. “I have no regrets.”
― S.G. Blaise, The Last Lumenian

tags: lies, science-fiction, truth, war

31 likes

“But work used to be the lot of every man, and now it is rapidly becoming an aristocratic privilege. Men nowadays are more often paid not to work.”
― Colleen McCullough, A Creed for the Third Millennium

tags: privilege, society, work

7 likes

“You come from a nice home and family and had a comfortable life. You had a nice warm, dry bed to crawl into every night and the last thing on your mind was being bombed, rocketed, mortared or generally physically endangered.”
― Michael Zboray, Teenagers War: Vietnam 1969

tags: ptsd, truth, war

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