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Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.

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Learn this now and learn it well. Like a compass facing north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. You remember that, Mariam.

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Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.

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Mammy's heart was like a pallid beach where Laila's footprints would forever wash away beneath the waves of sorrow that swelled and crashed, swelled a...more

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James Parkinson. George Huntington. Robert Graves. John Down. Now this Lou Gehrig fellow of mine. How did men come to monopolize disease names too?

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Once, when I was little, I asked her if she’d cried when my father had fallen to his death.At the funeral? I mean, the burial?No, I did not.Because yo...more

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I've crossed paths since with men like him. I wish I could say differently. But I have. And what I have learned is that you dig a little and you find ...more

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That same night, I wrote my first short story. It took me thirty minutes. It was a dark little tale about a man who found a magic cup and learned that...more

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He knew I betrayed him and yet he was rescuing me once again, maybe for the last time.