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Heather Ruane

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Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America

by Beth Macy (Goodreads Author)

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Gone Before Goodbye

by Reese Witherspoon

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Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church

by Rachel Held Evans

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Dec 28, 2025 08:18PM

It’s almost painful, the way little children just trustingly hold out their hearts for you to look at—the way they haven’t learned yet how to conceal what matters to them, even if it’s just chewing gum or a plush dolphin or plastic ...more

The Unquiet Bones

by Loreth Anne White

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My Friends

by Fredrik Backman

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Heather’s Quotes

“Not nostalgia”
― Virginia Evans, The Correspondent

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“And yet, as is often the case, those of us who need love so badly at a particular moment can be off-putting to those who want to love us, and to those who do love us.”
― Elizabeth Strout, Tell Me Everything

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“most just could not really care past their own experiences.”
― Elizabeth Strout, Tell Me Everything

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“The truth is that the truth is almost beside the point.”
― Jesselyn Cook, The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family

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“If we acknowledge our racist history, it's harder to perpetuate American exceptionalism. It's harder to genuinely say 'Make America Great again.' It's harder to ignore systemic White supremacy and racism that still exists.”
― April Ajoy

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