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Sally Grace
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"alienation from self…we no longer…could say no without drowning in self-reproach…Every encounter demands too much…To assign unanswered letters their proper weight, free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves—there lies the great, singular power of self-respect. Without it, one eventually discovers the final turn of the screw: one runs away to find oneself, & finds no one at home.
— Mar 13, 2026 12:34PM
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Sally Grace
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…"where is the schoolgirl who used to be me," & if it was late enough at night I used to wonder that. I know now almost everyone wonders something like that, sooner or later & no matter what he or she is doing, but one of the mixed blessings of being twenty & twenty-one & even twenty-three is the conviction that nothing like this, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding, has ever happened to anyone before.
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Sally Grace
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Previous progress update from pages 132-133
— Mar 13, 2026 11:59AM
Sally Grace
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“Although I have felt compelled to write things down since I was 5, I doubt that my daughter ever will, for she is a singularly blessed and accepting child, delighted with life exactly as life presents itself to her, unafraid to go to sleep & unafraid to wake up. Keepers of private notebooks are…lonely & resistant rearrangers, anxious malcontents, children afflicted at birth with some presentiment of loss.”
— Mar 13, 2026 11:58AM
