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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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“In any case, I wish I could say after all this time it's easier, but it's not easier”
― The Correspondent
― The Correspondent
“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
“That's an extra cruelty that cancer brings, Ted thought, when you're waiting for everything to go back to normal again. Until one day you realize that the illness has become the new normal.”
― My Friends
― My Friends
“You never get over death. Not if you're someone who loves.”
― My Friends
― My Friends
“... it's a lie that people are scared of being alone, because what we fear is being abandoned. You can choose to be alone, but no one chooses to be left.”
― My Friends
― My Friends
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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