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"Though I am functionally an atheist, it still baffles. The way the world has plans for us so out of line with what we could have ever predicted. And it brings no relief to acknowledge that that is because there is no plan.

Mother is God. I’m her baby, Job. She has let a devil ruin me, and for no reason but to remind me nothing in this world is ours.”

“Though I am functionally an atheist, it still baffles. The way the world has plans for us so out of line with what we could have ever predicted. And it brings no relief to acknowledge that that is because there is no plan.”

“The words seethe under my tongue. Mama’s words. And Pop’s.

History repeats and repeats, because history is people, and we can reproduce only what we know. And we get what we know from our elders.

The same mechanisms that facilitate language facilitate the passing on of pain.”