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"But you know, Maia, if you ever get to wanting to talk about her - how you remember her, like - then I'd want to hear. Although staying quiet... she's just as much in your heart that way too, of course."

Cian - oh, my heart. Love is expressed in so many different ways

"Cora thinks about it all the time. About Gordon turning eighteen. It's only eleven years away and she's lived like this far longer than that already. But she doesn't tell mother any of this."

"... like some kind of bag lady. Maia thinks about this and is shocked to realize how little separates them. Her mother lives in a warm house and is bought clothes to wear, but she has no more money or freedom than the woman who pushes a shopping trolley or scavenged treasures around town."