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My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.

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I always wondered why God was supposed to be a father," she whispers. Fathers always want you to measure up to something. Mothers are the ones who lov...more

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She puts her hands on either side of my face, and the room falls away. I have never gotten so lost in a kiss before. And then, the space between us ex...more

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I realize that I quite like this girl. It’s not just that she’s so pretty the words fly out of my mind before they can leave my mouth—it’s that when w...more

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Isn’t that what true romance is supposed to be about? Finding the person who’s your soul mate. Someone you dream about at night.Someone whose name is ...more

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...courage wasn’t something you were bequeathed at birth, and it wasn’t a lack of fright. It was overcoming your fear, because the ones you love matte...more

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Was that all it took to be brave? Knowing that someone believed in you?

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But there’s a part of me that wonders what it would be like to be the most important person to someone else, to always feel like you were missing a pi...more

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but it seems to me that growing up means you stop hoping for the best, and start expecting the worst. So how do you tell an adult that maybe everythin...more

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Home is not a place, but rather, the people who love you.

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Isn’t that what true romance issupposed to be about? Finding the person who’s your soul mate. Someone you dream about at night. Someone whose name is ...more

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Sometimes, mothers say and do things that seem like they don't want their kids... but when you look more closely, you realize that they're doing those...more

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It's never the differences between people that surprise us. It's the things that, against all odds, we have in common.

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I wonder if other mothers feel a tug at their insides, watching their children grow up into the people they themselves wanted so badly to be.

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Cara: I used to believe everything my brother told me, because he was older and I figured he knew more about the world. But as it turns out, being a g...more