“He'd wanted to get her baptized before she could take off and lose herself in some rough life and then be lost in whatever came after it.”
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“And anybody at all can see it, but you can't. It just floats there in front of you. It might as well be your soul, for all you can do to protect it. What isn't strange, when you think about it.”
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“But if you're just a stranger to everybody on earth, then that's what you are and there's no end to it. You don't know the words to say.”
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“After decades away from the Midwest, she’d forgotten that bewildering generosity was a common regional tic.”
― Kitchens of the Great Midwest
― Kitchens of the Great Midwest
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