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"She grows up feeling wrong, out of place, too dark, too tall, too unruly, too opinionated, too silent, too strange. She grows up with the awareness that she is merely tolerated, an irritant, useless, that she does not deserve love, that she will need to change herself substantially (...) She grows up, too, with the memory of what it meant to be properly loved, for what you are, not what you ought to be."

AGNES ILY