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I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she had left me was that it was possible to love and care for a man an...more

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I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the ...more

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But he told me that most of the time he stayed on the boardwalk, facing the water, just the way we were sitting now even when it got cold and he had t...more

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In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own. I learned who I was and who I wanted to be, what I might aspire to, and what I mi...more

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Behind every door in London there are stories, behind every one ghosts. The greatest writers in the history of the written word have given them substa...more