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Michele
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“Your mother and I both have a small shard of glass in our hearts where the other is concerned: her disappointment, my shame, her regret and my regret. This helps to pry it loose. All these years later, you can still pry something loose. There’s no sense carrying shame and regret into the next life.”
— Jul 22, 2026 06:24AM
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Michele
is on page 237 of 295
"Too much love?"
"Not too much love, more like too much crippling dependency on the part of the parent, which masquerades as love."
"I never thought about that," I said, and truly, I had not, though it had been right there in front of me all these years.
"Our parents," Leda said, "did not depend on us for their sense of identity. They had their lives and we had ours. Bless them."
— Jul 22, 2026 06:21AM
"Not too much love, more like too much crippling dependency on the part of the parent, which masquerades as love."
"I never thought about that," I said, and truly, I had not, though it had been right there in front of me all these years.
"Our parents," Leda said, "did not depend on us for their sense of identity. They had their lives and we had ours. Bless them."
Michele
is on page 237 of 295
“We were loved, not passionately but enough, and we were largely ignored, which allowed for our healthy separation from the primary family. Necessity made us resourceful and brave. We were left to solve our own problems and so we did. The children you should worry about are the ones who are the singular light of their parents’ lives, the ones who hit thirty and are still calling their mom five times a day.”
— Jul 22, 2026 06:19AM
Michele
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“People have no understanding of how love works,” Eddie said. “They don’t take gratitude into account. They don’t think about relief.”
— Jul 22, 2026 05:51AM