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Then you must teach my daughter this same lesson. How to lose your innocence but not your hope. How to laugh forever.

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Everyone must dream. We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that's like saying you can never change your fate. Isn't that true?

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We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.

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And for all those years, we never talked about the disaster at the recital or my terrible accusations afterward at the piano bench. All that remained ...more

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And then it occurs to me. They are frightened. In me, they see their own daughters, just as ignorant, just as unmindful of all the truths and hopes th...more

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It's not that we had no heart or eyes for pain. We were all afraid. We all had our miseries. But to despair was to wish for something already lost. Or...more