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The relationship between parents and children, but especially between mothers and daughters, is tremendously powerful, scarcely to be comprehended in ...more

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Her visits to her former hometown were infrequent and often painful. Pilgrimages fueled by the tepid oxygen of family duty, unease, guilt. The more Es...more

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Truths are the last thing you learn about your family. By the time you learn, you're no longer their child.

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The danger of motherhood. you relive your early self, through the eyes of your mother.

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For what are the words with which to summarize a lifetime, so much crowded confused happiness terminated by such stark slow-motion pain?