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He reached out and gripped my toe in its threadbare sock.
"She's still in there, that unpolluted little girl, even as you grow into a woman. And every day that I wake up and see her in your face, I am proud of what I've done. What we've done."
I shifted my toe out of his hand and watched the smile slide right off his face.
"Maybe you should have just let the bear eat me," I said.
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"She's still in there, that unpolluted little girl, even as you grow into a woman. And every day that I wake up and see her in your face, I am proud of what I've done. What we've done."
I shifted my toe out of his hand and watched the smile slide right off his face.
"Maybe you should have just let the bear eat me," I said.
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He was extracting things from the box: instruction manuals, loose cables.
"So that's what your 'high-profile job' was? In computers? Why didn't you tell me that?"
"I didn't think it mattered to you. I have firsthand knowledge of why all this is dangerous."
I found his self-contradiction alarming: What was I supposed to believe now? I knew, looking at the wires in his hand, that something vital had already shifted.
— 21 hours, 26 min ago
"So that's what your 'high-profile job' was? In computers? Why didn't you tell me that?"
"I didn't think it mattered to you. I have firsthand knowledge of why all this is dangerous."
I found his self-contradiction alarming: What was I supposed to believe now? I knew, looking at the wires in his hand, that something vital had already shifted.
Lauren McCain
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“The intimacy between the two of them made something ache inside me. I had a vague memory of my own mother's hands in my hair, combing it into braids; but it was possible that was just cribbed from a scene I'd read in Little Women, Marmee fussing over Jo's locks.
Whenever I was around Heidi and Lina, I couldn't help wondering what it must feel like to have a mother like Lina. “
— Dec 20, 2025 08:12PM
Whenever I was around Heidi and Lina, I couldn't help wondering what it must feel like to have a mother like Lina. “
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My father was a brilliant philosopher king, the benevolent ruler of our tranquil domain; or he was a tyrant, a maniac, and a menace.
My life was bucolic and happy; or it was bizarre and lonely.
Which is true? Is it possible it could be both? The more I seek clarity, the more entangled and confused my recollections become.
— Dec 19, 2025 10:02PM
My life was bucolic and happy; or it was bizarre and lonely.
Which is true? Is it possible it could be both? The more I seek clarity, the more entangled and confused my recollections become.
