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“Only years later I’d understand that my parents were confused. I was their only child, and they were growing up with me. They couldn’t decide which rules to keep and which to discard. Their structure of behavior was dictated by a societal tradition in which reputation was the most important thing.”

“But desire can’t be girdled, especially not the lavish, life-altering, catastrophic kind that girls feel for wilderness.”

‘To an outsider it might look like I come from a family of hitters. But it was our love language. Sometimes the only way we touched.’