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“The distance I’d always felt, the longing for a closer relationship with my mother—it all made sense. Ruby and I couldn’t be real friends until I was a woman with a husband and a family of my own. Until I was her equal. Just as Ruby had to become a wife and mother to truly earn her own mother’s respect, I, too, would have to do the same. I would have to wait to be loved”