Mom loved my brother more. Not that she didn't love me - I felt the wash of her love every day, pouring over me, but it was a different kind, siphoned from a different, and tamer, body of water. I was her darling daughter; Joseph was her it.

Aimee Bender

Stichwörter: love mother siblings



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It seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.

Aimee Bender


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We hit the sidewalk, and dropped hands. How I wished, right then, that the whole world was a street.

Aimee Bender


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I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.

Aimee Bender


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Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.

Aimee Bender


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I could feel the tears beginning to collect in my throat again, but I pushed them apart, away from each other. Tears are only a threat in groups.

Aimee Bender


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I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.

Aimee Bender


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I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q...

Aimee Bender


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I felt the crumpled paper that had taken the place of my lungs expand as if released from a fist.

Aimee Bender


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I loved my brother, but relying on him was like closing a hand around air.

Aimee Bender


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