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Melissa

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If I Make It

by Amelia Faith (Goodreads Author)

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— Jul 03, 2015 08:14AM

Jul 26, 2015 12:24AM

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Someday, Someday, Maybe

by Lauren Graham

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— Jun 11, 2015 06:32PM

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Five, Six, Seven, Nate! (Better Nate Than Ever, #2)

by Tim Federle (Goodreads Author)

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— May 26, 2015 10:39AM

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Melissa’s Quotes

“Life begins at the day of birth.
Birthday is a great day of honour.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

tags: birth-mother, birth-rights, birthday-quotes, birthdays, children, life-and-death, life-lesson, life-philosophy, life-quotes, mothers-and-daughters, mothers-and-sons, mothers-day-quotes, pare, parenting-advice, parents-and-children, pregnancy-quotes

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“On this walk I'd had so much time and space to actually figure out who I was without my mother's influence. I understood now: the things that my mother had found made her happy were not the same as the things that made me happy. And I understood: that was okay.”
― Aspen Matis, Girl in the Woods: A Memoir

tags: aspen-matis, hiking, mothers-and-daughters, self-improvement, truth, wisdom

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“Are we not all actors playing parts in another person's play?”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: action, actors, actress, comedians, comedy, connections, curiousity, dark-humor, drama, good-will-hunting, heroes, horror, humor, irony, life, life-roles, lovers, monsters, perspective, philosophy, religion, roles, romance, shakespeare, teachers, theology, viewpoint, villians, worldsuck, writing

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“The thing about mothers, I want to say, is that once the containment ends and one becomes two, you don't always fit together so nicely... The living mother-daughter relationship, you learn over and over again, is a constant choice between adaptation and acceptance.”
― Kelly Corrigan, Glitter and Glue

tags: mothers-and-daughters

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