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If she couldn’t control him with his love, she’d control him with his sympathy. This would become a pattern that worked for my mother. Sympathy paid dividends. Sympathy could create celebrity. The friendships my mother had were one-sided
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― The Shining
― The Shining
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― Pretty Girls
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― The Shining
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