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My mom's the one I look up to for everything. I feel like I'm a lump of clay and she's moulding me into a woman.

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It seems we need someone to know us as we are - with all we have done - and forgive us. We need to tell. We need to be whole in someone's sight: Know this about me, and yet love me. Please.

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Kids need to see that Jesus is the best thing that ever happened to us. And they need to know it can happen to them.

Jesus, Kids, Know, Needs, See

But pain may be a gift to us. Remember, after all, that pain is one of the ways we register in memory the things that vanish, that are taken away. We fix them in our minds forever by yearning, by pain, by crying out. Pain, the pain that seems unbearable at the time, is memory's first imprinting step, the cornerstone of the temple we erect inside us in memory of the dead. Pain is part of memory, and memory is a God-given gift.

Memories, Pain, Register, Remember, Taken, Yearning

There is something truly restorative, finally comforting, in coming to the end of an illusion - a false hope.

Comforting, False, Illusion, Serious

I suppose in our contemporary lives, our cumulative e-mails might constitute a kind of diary: that informal, moment-by-moment description of life as it goes by. . As I think of those notes now - what I wrote, what I said - it seems to me they danced across the surface just as my grandmother's diaries did - Anais Nin she wasn't, and I wasn't, either. Who is? Not even Anais Nin.

Anais, Diaries, Grandmother, Life, Thinking, Wrote

I felt the kind of desperation, I think, that cancels the possibility of empathy. . . that makes you unkind.

Desperation, Empathy, Kind, Possibility, Thinking
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