Amy
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From the distance of a skeptical adolescent, unionism seemed like a thicket of contradictions. Charity to all, but intolerance toward the heathen. Poverty ennobles, but the Bishops had to be richer than everyone else.
“Maybe she hated me for all the complicated reasons we hate people who are more like us than we can admit.”
― The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing
― The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing
“I want to be better than she was to me so she can be better than she was to me.”
― The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing
― The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing
“Everything said something, and it wasn’t her job to consider the merit or even the meaning of the message: just to witness the fact of the message.”
― Son of a Witch
― Son of a Witch
“My own emotions embarrassed me so I kept them private. Vulnerable wasn’t a look I was willing to wear.”
― The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing
― The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing
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