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... "you can be free. Simply put, you have to give up on Earth."
This seemed impossible to me.
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He had apologized to me in his note-book. "I need to rest, honey. I need to understand how to go after this man. I hope you'll understand."
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He had had a moment of clarity about how life should be lived: not as a child or as a woman. They were the two worst things to be.

"If she hadn't been there," the doctor later told my mother,
"you would have lost your little boy."

Grandma Lynn predicted I'd have a long life because I had saved my brother's. As usual, Grandma Lynn was wrong.