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He took her by the wrists and held her own hands out before her. She looked down at her palms and understood - her being was implied, her potential thoughts and feelings coursing through her body, the names of everything she knew and those she didn't yet, all in the perpetual existence in her fingertips.
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Being motherless was different than being fatherless. It was primal, the archetype for human suffering, like losing the North Star.
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The fact that he had done this many times before mitigated the length of the homesickness, but not its intensity.
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Of course, that was their privilege-to conflate majority with superiority.
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So please, dont judge me. There is no one more disappointing to me than myself.
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More than that, it had what February considered to be the most important indicator of good food - a 3:00 P.M. closing time. If they could make their living off only breakfast and sandwiches, safe bet it was going to be a good sandwich.
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Sign language had been so thoroughly stigmatized that in trying to avoid it, parents had unknowingly opted for a modern version of institutionalization, locking their children away in their own minds.
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Who would hear the secrets we bear?
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