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Like the teens I worked with, I understood the need for miracles--they kept reality from paralyzing you

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A woman isn't all that different from a bonfire. A fire's a beautiful thing, right? Something you can't take your eyes off, when it's burning. If you ...more

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Change isn't always for the worst; the shell that forms around a piece of sand looks to some people like an irritation, and to others, like a pearl.

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Every baby is born beautiful. It's what we project on them that makes them ugly.

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Elise Vasquez and I stand shoulder to shoulder, watching the woman we both feel we lost, and may be never really had.