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A man who stand up for his woman????! SEATED

Honestly, a crash course into life.

such an honest testament of grief and loss and love. it is really hard to listen to

'I think there comes a point when all mothers realize this. We have the children that we have, not the ones we imagined we'd have or the ones we'd have liked, and they're the ones we end up having to contend with..sometimes children come to
us without us having planned it, as if someone had deposited an egg in our nest.'

"I would be lying if I said I didn't need her (my mother): when she's not around I feel I've lost my grip on the world. If you don't leave home you suffocate; if you go too far. you lose oxygen,' as Vivian Gornick said hitting the nail on the head"

"We daughters have a tendency to see in our mother's mistakes the source of all our problems, and our mothers tend to consider our defects as proof of a possible failure."

"There is a word to describe someone who loses their spouse, and a word for children who are left without parents. There is no word, however, for a parent who loses their child. Unlike previous centuries in which child mortality was very high, it's not normal for this to occur in our time. It is something so feared, so unacceptable, that we have chosen not to name it."

"And Richard wonders why this happens, why he can't just be honest with the person he's in a relationship with; why he spends so much time not even being honest with himself"

"There are parts of him he doesn't understand, parts he wilfully hides from himself"

"If he's honest, hedidn't know how to love them. How to love Karen. When he was with them, he got it, he understood. Bu when he was away. when he was away with work. he , didn't miss them. Not really. He was glad of the space But they never felt real to him. They just felt like something that had happened to a version of him, some other him, some unreal part of him that he couldn't fully receive or understand."

"And time did seem to move oddly during all this. The days would disappear but the nights would be heavy and slow, and the weeks would drag but the months would bunch up, spilling over each other like they were all racing for the new year."

happy new year's eve eve

""I don't want nothin to keep me from learnin no more." But in fact there was something that would keep Deborah from learning: she didn't have enough money. Her social security check barely covered her living expenses, let alone classes and books."