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suppose, when your parents fail you, you either go to pieces or you become the grown-up you require.
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“Being a parent is so strange, all our children's pain belongs to us, but so does their joy.”
― My Friends
― My Friends
“I have found it to be absolutely astounding, all the trouble living has turned out to be. Things nobody ever warned me about.”
― The Correspondent
― The Correspondent
“Vincent Van Gogh wrote: 'I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.”
― My Friends
― My Friends
“They’re not, Dad. Kids aren’t resilient. That’s something adults like to say to make themselves feel better. To pretend that kids don’t feel as deeply as adults do. But kids are everything that happens to them. They’re sponges. Everything bad, everything good. Every hurtful thing you say. Every loving one.”
― The Road to Tender Hearts
― The Road to Tender Hearts
“I supposed there is this one part of it, which is, Gilbert has never left me, and the circumstances of his death have never for one day diminished, and as I age it feels so strange that the majority of people with whom I come in contact don't have the slightest inkling that he ever lived.”
― The Correspondent
― The Correspondent
Fonville Winans, Photographer
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For fans of the photographer Fonville Winans. Winans famously photographed Louisiana's Depression-era Cajuns, and in doing so documented a hardscrabbl ...more
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