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Time is how you spend your love.

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Mothers are urgently trying to tell something to their daughters, and this urgency is precisely what repels their daughters, forcing them to turn away...more

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People talk about the happy quiet that can exist between two loves, but this, too, was great; sitting between his sister and his brother, saying nothi...more

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This is what a woman is: unadorned, after children and work and age, and experience-these are the marks of living.

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Greeting cards routinely tell us that everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all of the time.

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That kind of inability to improve is really very rare. That kind of consistency is miraculous, in a way.