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It's certainly my honor to be able to, hopefully, change the world a tiny bit, one mind at a time.

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I wonder if all mothers feel like this the moment they realize their daughters are growing up- as if it is impossible to believe that the laundry I on...more

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There are just as many stories to be told in the dark spots as there are in the bright ones.

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You don't have to say anything if you don't want to."Anna lies down, her head pillowed against my shoulder. Every second, another streak of silver glo...more

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Sara," I ask finally, "what do you want from me?""I want to look at you and remember what it used to be like," she says thickly. "I want to go back, B...more

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But kids don't stay where they're supposed to. You turn around and find her not in the bedroom but hiding in a closet; you turn around and see she's n...more

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There should be a statute of limitation on grief. A rulebook that says it is all right to wake up crying, but only for a month. That after 42 days you...more

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There is a curious thing that happens with the passage of time: a calcification of character.

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When I was little I bragged about my firefighting father: my father would go to heaven, because if he went to hell he would put out all the fires

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From that point of view, I realized that my hole was not miles deep after all. My father, in fact, could stand on the bottom and it only reached up to...more

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Things don't always look as they seem. Some stars, for example, look like bright pinholes, but when you get them pegged under a microscope you find yo...more

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And if you don't find what you're looking for?"At Roy's question Addie looked up."Then all I've lost is time.