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“It was her duty, as a guardian, to put into action the beautiful ideal of hope. Ma thought harshly: This was what it looked like. Hope for the future was no shy bloom but a blood-maddened creature, fanged and toothed, with its own knowledge of history’s hostilities and the cages of present. Hope wasn’t soft or tender. It was mean. It snarled. It fought. It deceived.
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“Much of her life was a series of tedious acts like these, and yet the patience of performing them contained her love, less tender and often less tenderly shown than Dadu’s, but steadfast in it’s plain truth.”
— May 12, 2026 07:01PM
