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I believe that. All divorce does is divert you, taking you away from everything you thought you knew and everything you thought u wanted and steering ...more

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You see, here's my theory: Kids chase the love that eludes them, and for me, that was my father's love. He kept it tucked away, like papers in a brief...more

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Never tell a child that something it’s too hard

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I also believe that parents, if they love you, will hold you up safely, above their swirling waters, and sometimes that means you'll never know what t...more

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What is it about childhood that never lets you go, even when you're so wrecked it's hard to believe you ever were a child?

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I also believe that parents, if they love you, will hold you up safely, above their swirling waters, and sometimes that means you'll never know what t...more

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But she wasn’t around, and that’s the thing when your parents die, you feel like instead of going in to every fight with backup, you are going into ev...more

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All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others cr...more

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Morrie,” Koppel said, “that was seventy years ago your mother died. The pain still goes on?”“You bet,” Morrie whispered.

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Take any emotion—love for a woman, or grief for a loved one, or what I’m going through, fear and pain from a deadly illness. If you hold back on the e...more

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For many of us, the curtain has just come down on childhood.