She also understood there was a hole in her heart where her son should be, that she was a wicked, selfish woman for wishing him back.
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Water. Like a blanket. Dark. Intoxicating. Cold.
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It’s not like I planned it. I never woke up from some rosy dream and said, “Okay, world, today I’m gonna spaz.
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My Stephen King for his Ayn Rand. My Terry Goodkind for his T.S. Elliot. Not a bang but a whimper.
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When I was twenty-something, I asked my father, “When did you start feeling like a grownup?” His response: “Never.
Shannon CelebiTags: life growing-up life-lessons life-and-living coming-of-age fathers fathers-and-daughters father twenties life-and-living-life-lessons
Jeb'd said it was harder for a pretty girl to find work; even white men liked flowers, whether red or pink or blue.
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She didn't tell him white folks couldn't love the same as coloreds. She couldn't love the same neither though, cuz more than half of her was white.
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If she could hate this much she sure as hell had loved.
Shannon CelebiTags: love hate hate-to-love love-to-hate
You’re worried about what-ifs. Well, what if you stopped worrying?
Shannon CelebiTags: worry what-if worrying worries worrying-over-nothing worried
Cuz I can count on one hand the men who’ve loved me, not in the Biblical sense—I don’t have enough digits for that—but who have truly loved me.
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