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Carol
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Afterwards, she ignored me as she swept around the house, her full lips closed in a faint sneer, with an expression of great privacy. She had the ability to become impenetrable through sheer volition.
— 9 hours, 10 min ago
Carol
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There was a hole in our house, like a great mouth, filled with love words and lost objects.
— 9 hours, 14 min ago
Carol
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As I looked at my daughter’s face, I began to understand that to love another was to be a custodian of that person’s decline — to know this fate, hold onto it, and live.
— 9 hours, 18 min ago
Carol
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I remembered the night of Tian’s brilliant recital — we had been so lighthearted, so happy, walking arm in arm through the sparkling street. We had inventoried our desires, caressing and counting them as if they were prayer beads. It must have been this admission of hope that had been our downfall.
— 23 hours, 8 min ago
Carol
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Behind this painted wall, beneath this layer of new sheathing, hides the story of our lives together. I have been silent many years, and my daughters have chosen to forget, but our family story lingers here. It waits under the floor; it has slid into the crawl space, wound around the stubborn beams and girders that were already old thirty years ago, when Tian and I first came to live in Brooklyn.
— 23 hours, 39 min ago
