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Karen C.
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“There was a lot my father didn’t notice. His hours at work grew longer and longer. The older I got, the less he was around. Each day, my father paused at the open front door and kissed us all on the cheeks before he went to work. It was the only time he ever kissed us. When people might see.”
― When Women Were Dragons
― When Women Were Dragons
“drag-dragons”
― When Women Were Dragons
― When Women Were Dragons
“I wanted to see my friend. My Sonja. My Sonja, Sonja, Sonja. For reasons that I couldn’t identify. My skin became suddenly attentive at the thought of her, and my heart tripped over itself beating fast, then slow, then fast again, and it was so good to have a friend.”
― When Women Were Dragons
― When Women Were Dragons
“A seed may look like a quiet, lifeless thing—just a speck—but that’s just a trick. There is another thing it wants to be. Very soon it will split its skin, sprout out of itself, and become…bigger.”
― When Women Were Dragons
― When Women Were Dragons
“We were each assigned a boy to work for. He would be our assigned friend. I can’t even remember which boy I was assigned. All I know is that I did a wretched job on purpose.”
― When Women Were Dragons
― When Women Were Dragons
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