Flannery craved a cigarette. Her nerves were so tense that only nicotine could soothe them, and for the … - Sylvia Brownrigg

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I'm a social butterfly. Once I get somewhere, I can make myself at ease and start the team bonding and build a relationship with my team, all my teammates, all the coaches, all the coaching staff.

Sylvia Brownrigg

Flannery craved a cigarette. Her nerves were so tense that only nicotine could soothe them, and for the first time, she genuinely understood how the drug worked. It wasn't just a prop or an affectation. It was a tool for mental health.

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I plan to learn enough to read you like a book.

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No wonder you want to be a writer. How can you not, with all that behind you? You practically are a novel already.

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The gap between the inner and outer self is one I've found interesting, even essential, about the way we move through the world. In The Delivery Room, I enjoyed traveling back and forth between the perspectives of the patients and that of the therapist - with the irony that with your therapist, you are at least supposed to be your most authentic self.

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It could not always be love in the afternoon and passion in the night, gifts given, notes written, meals fed to each other. It can't all be like that.

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This was another item about growing up: you encountered all the cliches of love and loss and heartbreak.

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