No matter what you do, someone always knew you would.

Ami McKay

Stichwörter: wisdom truth gossip small-town



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Aunt Fran lowered her voice. "Her cold is just the start of a greater sickness. These 'stories,' as you call them, will only lead her to more pain."
"Fran, talk plain, will you?"
"I'm talking about derangement."
"Don't be silly!"
She wispered. "And deviant behaviours.

Ami McKay


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Standing in front of the girl's house, Mama yelled up at the windows, "Katie Adams, you whore, give me my husband back!" When Miss Adams' neighbours complained about all the noise Mama was making, my father came down to quiet her. He kissed her until she cried, but didn't come home.

Ami McKay


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Miss B. says, "It's a mama's faith what keeps her children right. I'm not talkin' 'bout the churchgoin' kind, neither. Miss Mabel's got faith in goodness. Tell me you can't help but believe in it too just by lookin' at her.

Ami McKay

Stichwörter: goodness



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If women lose the right to say where and how they birth their children, then they will have lost something that's as dear to life as breathing.

Ami McKay

Stichwörter: life inspirational birth political midwifery homebirth



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How a mother comes to love her child, her caring at all for this thing that's made her heavy, lopsided and slow, this thing that made her wish she were dead ... that's the miracle.

Ami McKay


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The house seemed almost without smells at all, pleasant or foul, leaving me to wonder if the upper class existed on a different sort of air from the rest of the world, a breeze piped into their homes from above the clouds, so clean you had to pay for it.

Ami McKay


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What do you want? Love. Well, love gets what she wants one way or another.

Ami McKay

Stichwörter: love



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Heart throbs- yes, heart throbs of happiness, heart throbs of courage, heart throbs that make us feel better. Those things that appeal to others; that note of inspiration laid aside--bring it forth and let us make a magazine that will speak the language of the heart as well as of the mind.

Ami McKay

Stichwörter: happiness courage



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Bidden or not, God is here.

Ami McKay


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