Status Updates From Le madri

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The weight of what has been lost is always heavier than what remains.

"WHEN YOU GONNA settle down, girl?" Mother Betty asked Nadia one morning. "You always flittin' around, here and there. You think life is for wandering about, lookin' for what makes you happy? Those just white girl dreams and fantasies. You need to settle down, find a good man. Look Aubrey Evans! When you gonna do the same?"

The gossip at the church was Upper Room's undoing. Rumors were started were Nadia was given $5,000 dollars to keep quiet about her abortion because it would ruin the pastor and his wife. As the rumor kept getting bigger. The amount went up and the age went down.

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There was nothing lonelier than the moment you realized someone had abandoned you.

Nadia is in law school in Chicago. Her father had barbell crush is diaphragm. She is back in Oceanside. Aubrey is by her side at the hospital.

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If a man who knew you could hurt you, who knew what a man who didn't might do?

You had to find a perfect symmetry, because the same air that gave life had the capacity to destroy it.

He had lived with death, so he knew there was nothing brave in not fearing it.