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"Yet she also knew that to intervene in this way would disrupt something sacred that--at twelve and thirteen and fourteen years old--they we're learning about themselves and the world. And this, too, was how she thought of God."

"It brought out in Louise the desire to clown a little, to be egged on--a part of her that was close to extinguished. With John Paul, she always had to be the straight man."

"Over and over again she wailed his name. Bear. Bear. And the name itself became a chant or incantation, assumed all its many meanings at once. Abide. Endure. Sustain. Accept. Convey. Bring forth. Give birth to."

"All of them were mothers. All of them regularly set aside their innate sense of propriety to holler with abandon for their children."

"WHEN LOST SIT DOWN AND YELL"

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"Her voice, it seemed, had been continuously decrescendoing since birth, so that by age twelve, she could scarcely be heard."