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“SLIPS ARE TOTALLY NORMAL. WHEN you have a slip, it’s just that. A slip. It doesn’t define you. It doesn’t make you a failure. The most important thing is that you don’t let that slip become a slide,”
― I'm Glad My Mom Died
― I'm Glad My Mom Died
“Men, they’ll hurt you without ever really knowing you,” she often told me. “But women… women will know you deeply, intimately, and then hurt you. You tell me which is worse.”
― I'm Glad My Mom Died
― I'm Glad My Mom Died
“I yearn to know the people I love deeply and intimately—without context, without boxes—and I yearn for them to know me that way, too.”
― I'm Glad My Mom Died
― I'm Glad My Mom Died
“I'm allowed to hate someone else's dream, even if it's my reality.”
― I'm Glad My Mom Died
― I'm Glad My Mom Died
“A little girl shouldn’t have to worry about her entire family,’ Grandpa says to me one afternoon….
‘What?’ I ask, not because I didn’t hear what he said, but because I’m confused. Of course a little girl should worry about her entire family. That’s what little girls do.
‘I just…’ He steps closer to me. ‘I just think…you deserve to be a kid.”
― I'm Glad My Mom Died
‘What?’ I ask, not because I didn’t hear what he said, but because I’m confused. Of course a little girl should worry about her entire family. That’s what little girls do.
‘I just…’ He steps closer to me. ‘I just think…you deserve to be a kid.”
― I'm Glad My Mom Died
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