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"I've never chosen anything for myself before. ...Not food, not clothes, not when I did things, or what I did. Or even who I married. Not anything. ...And you've let me choose."

"I watched her go and wished I knew how to talk to her for I felt in my heart we could have been true friends, and I had never had a friend."

"I looked back towards the mountains and for the first time in my life felt a profound sense of belonging."

"I understood, with a physical jolt, that I didn't have to change myself to please you either."