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“You are the scariest thing in the woods.”

“That life was filled with unkindness and so you had to meter out your sympathy. I was rationing mine, saving it for the people under my spotty roof.”

“You’ve confined us to a prison of performance.”

“When I was a girl, a butterfly flew through a cracked window, into my room. It knocked back against the parchment, trying to find a way out. Into sunshine. Into air. Chalky wings palpitating. I reached for it, wanting to help. Tried to grab it, cup it in my hands, so I could deliver the thing back to freedom. But my gesture, my very touch, brought injury. The butterfly fell to the floor, wing torn.”

“I was an aging lady of the house, pruning in tepid bathwater…”

“We don’t all draw our angels with the same hand.”

“I tried to smile. Sometimes the false self and the real one become so intertwined you do not know where one starts and the other ends.”

“…bone against bone (my molars, grinding and clenched).”