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"'You should both show your scars...They mean you survived.'"

"But grief was like a silver locket with two faces in it. I didn't know what the faces looked like, but it was heavy around my neck. And I never took it off."

"I could tolerate and form of cruelty better than kindness. Praise was a poison to me. I choked on it... the ugliness of me needed to be gived expression. If he could not express it in his voice, I would need to express it in mine."