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My relatives’ silence held me captive. I felt something establishing itself, taking form, and I intended to gauge just how far they would dare to push this barbaric dominance over my person. It was a contest between Nonna and me. And more than that: between me and a humiliating tradition.
— Aug 22, 2026 01:34PM
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Jen R.
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They were from the country, mostly, and lived in furnished rooms on the edge of the city; they brushed up against it, its houses, its customs without managing to become part of it.
— Aug 23, 2026 01:57PM
Jen R.
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He cheered up when he learned I had been hired by Mantovani's firm. Then again it was easy to discern, behind his apparent satisfaction, his annoyance at no longer being able to humiliate me every evening when he came home.
— Aug 23, 2026 10:15AM
Jen R.
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My hands are long and thin. Looking at them, you would think they were weak: delicate, feminine hands. You would think it, I said. But they've always been extremely strong, with a taste for subduing things, ..
— Aug 22, 2026 07:23AM
Jen R.
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They were women and they were with me to help in the way that only women know how to help women.
— Aug 21, 2026 09:30AM
Jen R.
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"I looked around and saw the big black wardrobe, the black chest, furniture from his town, furniture that has intimidated me from the start. When I walked into that room, just married, I felt I'd been walled up in a tomb alive.
— Aug 21, 2026 09:05AM
Jen R.
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Dario's moody silence was preferable to the empty swagger of other boys our age. They seemed determined to discover who they really were and pretended, through various strange behaviors, to have unique personalities.
— Aug 21, 2026 01:25AM
Jen R.
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The inadequacy of my religious education has always kept me from resigning myself to an unhappy life
— Aug 18, 2026 02:49PM