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Tears fall down my cheeks while I drive home, trying desperately to process everything. Laura suggested that Mom was abusive. My whole life, my entire existence has been oriented to the narrative that Mom wants what’s best for me, Mom does
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It is devastating to realize you didn't have a "normal" childhood, and the safe grownups in your life were actually not that safe.
“If anyone says that sex, in itself, is bad, Christianity contradicts him at once. But, of course, when people say, 'Sex is nothing to be ashamed of,' they may mean 'the state into which the sexual instinct has now got is nothing to be ashamed of'. If they mean that, I think they are wrong. I think it is everything to be ashamed of. There is nothing to be ashamed of in enjoying your food: there would be everything to be ashamed of if half the world made food the main interest of their lives and spent their time looking at pictures of food and dribbling and smacking their lips.”
― Mere Christianity
― Mere Christianity
Gwen’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Gwen’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Art, Biography, Children's, Christian, Classics, Cookbooks, Fantasy, Food, History, Humor and Comedy, Music, Philosophy, Poetry, and Spirituality
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