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“When there is only you, you do not get to choose which jobs you want, you do not get to decide you are incapable of anything. There is no room for distaste or weakness. You must do it all. All of the ugliness, the sadness, the things most people can’t stand to even think about, all must live inside of you. You must be capable of everything.”

“Watching her daughter standing there, scrubbing down a table, June saw herself, only twenty years younger, and suddenly had the feeling she was going to jump out of her skin.
‘Take your brothers and sister to the beach.’ ‘But—‘ Nina began to protest. She wanted to clean the tables because who else would clean them?
‘Go!’
Nina thought she was in trouble. June believed she was setting her free”