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Even more interesting than the cases to me are the drawings/paintings. I spent as much time looking at those as reading the stories.

Love. Transformation. Pissibility. Imagination…

Record, record, record!

“But there are things I’ve stood up for, for the better part of my life: fairness and justice for Black people, equality for queer people, the sheer joy of birds and the need to protect them and their wild places.”

Listening in awe to the protesters, to the warblers.

He’s a tree-hugging pagan. I love the Star Trek references.

Of course, not lightened when it’s 9/11. Loves travel.

Loves to travel. Seems to be a great guy except for all the one-night hook-ups.

Birding as an outlet for energy as a young closeted gay boy. Very intelligent. Likes Star Trek and Comics and his favorite job is as a writer at Marvel. Vignets of his life that touch on all kinds of events and topics, e.g. 9/11 in NY. Earlier visiting Australia. He touches on all the issues that come with his being gay and black without overdramatizing, you want to listen to all of it. Always lightened by birding.

Parrow is the missing girl. Walked with Santo for a while.

Bev. Bullied. Wanted to be called to something

About chapter 17. Lost children. Sometimes pregnant mothers. Abducted and they don’t even know whether they are alive. One was found in Chile instead of Argentina. They could be all over. Hard to find the children. The women risk everything.

The difficulties Chinese Americans had. Even when becoming famous. … Stereotypes, roles confined to those for quite some time. Chinese Exclusion Act. Learned first Cantonese because that was what was spoken around LA. Later Mandarin when visiting Chine for 4 months.

Apprehension at the new government is justified. Definitely “a strange new world”.

One woman is naive enough to tell someone who is probably an agent about other women protesting and being communists (I think it can easily happen. I might fall for it, too.) Another is going to prison because of it. So far they’re trying to intimidate her to give them information, but she doesn’t.

Allie’s mom marries uncle Massud so they can move out of the neighborhood, even though Allie would want to stay.

I had read one or two books by Tozer before. Since each excerpt is so short, at first I didn’t recognize him at first, but after 16 days, I’m getting more and more into it.

Women in Tehran in 1953. It’s still something special to be able to go to school.

Vigilance and Ecstasy lie right next to each other on Plutchik’s wheel of emotions. Vigilance shades off into Anticipation and Interest, toward the wheel’s rim. Ecstasy dials back into Joy and Serenity. In the wedge between Joy and Anticipation is Optimism.

WE CHANGED PLACES.

Chapter 2: “I dreamed and she (mother) cleaned.”

Finally they’re doing something right.
Did someone have to be dying for that to happen?

William’s mantra is coming up again: No bullshit and no secrets.

Apparently Cecilia is adopting it for parenting Izzy as well.

(What a contrast to what we saw in previous chapters with Julia and Alice).