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“The small hand wants to pull away from her mother’s safe hold. The small, dear hand needs to swim, explore, love. The ocean cannot be contained; neither can love; neither can Joy. Wren loosens her grasp. It is so hard to let go.”

“And if Margaret wasn’t talking, she was singing, and to Lewis’s complete vexation, the only songs in her repertoire were snippets of three hits from the early 2000s…as well as Avril Lavigne’s first two albums, which she knew by heart.”

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“What remained strong in the deep, the hard times, was love as an effort, a doing, a conscious act of will. Soulmates, like her and Lewis, were not theoretical and found. They were tangible, built.”

“All the hours he spent theorizing about magic seemed so naive now. The main ingredient in transformation was not magic. It was pain.”

“The doctors focused on subtraction, what was being taken from his human experience, but they failed to see the incredible features and traits being added in the process.”