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Rebecca didn’t always like having such a big church family. Some were hard to love: Sister Isaacs who cried when she said her testimony and then blew her nose with a honking sound; Brother Minder who said “ain’t” and used double negatives;
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“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.”
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“... for home is a magnet that lures back even its most abstracted children.”
― The House at Riverton
― The House at Riverton
“We must see all scars as beauty. Okay? This will be our secret. Because take it from me, a scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, 'I survived'.”
― The Other Hand
― The Other Hand
“Childhood is the one story that stands by itself in every soul.”
― The Whistling Season
― The Whistling Season
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