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No one can travel your own road for you you must travel it for yourself. My faith in this stems from my childhood. I grew up in a family with a system...more

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Whenever I'm with my [teenager] I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines.

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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 now at the airport, after shaking hands with everybody, waving good-bye, I think about all the different ways we leave people in this world. Cheer...more

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Fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention.

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And now at the airport, after shaking hands with everybody, waving good-bye, I think about all the different ways we leave people in this world. Cheer...more

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My mother believed in God's will for many years. It was af if she had turned on a celestial faucet and goodness kept pouring out. She said it was fait...more

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My mother believed in God's will for many years. It was af if she had turned on a celestial faucet and goodness kept pouring out. She said it was fait...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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What happened to Violet was terrible, and I’m not saying fate happens without blame. But when fate turns out well, everyone should forget the bad road...more