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“I was starving and grateful. I felt such a pinching, thorny love for my mother. I wished I could hug her. But that would have been impossible. We never showed love in that way.”
— Jan 21, 2026 11:48AM
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“We would do anything, even go against our natural instincts, so we could be taken care of.”
— Jan 21, 2026 12:57PM
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“Our parents had left their homes and the thread had unraveled, then been women again with us. This was how it always was, an unraveling and a ravelling of the earth, the ground we stood on. Nothing was sacred, everything was sacred, everything changed, everything stayed the same.”
— Jan 20, 2026 03:34PM
