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Annie turned away, her eyes glittering. 'Here's what no one tells you,' she said. 'When you deliver a fetus, you get a death certificate, but not a birth certificate. And afterward, your milk comes in, and there's nothing you can do to stop it.' She ...

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Here's what I hadn't realized: the mother you haven't seen for almost thirty-six years isn't your mother, she's a stranger. Sharing DNA doesn't make you fast friends. This wasn't a joyous reunion. It was just awkward.

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Maybe mothers - consciously or subconsciously - repelled their daughters in different ways.

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Just because you didn't put a name to something did not mean it wasn't there.

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I always hated when my scars started to fade, because as long as I could still see them, I knew why I was hurting.

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There are kinds of pain that you can't speak out loud.

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Parents aren't the people you come from. They're the people you want to be, when you grow up.

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I don't know whether you can look at your past and find, woven like the hidden symbols on a treasure map, the path that will point to your final destination.

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Houses are cellular walls; they keep our problems from bleeding into everyone else's.

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Doing the right thing for someone else occasionally means doing something that feels wrong to you.

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When you think you're right, you're most likely wrong.

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It was one thing to sacrifice your own life for someone else's. It was another thing entirely to bring into the mix a third party - a third party who knew you, who trusted you implicitly.

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I'd missed this so much, this simple pleasure. The sensation of a heavy shaft sliding over my tongue, pushing deeper and deeper into me until my lips bumped against my hand.

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When we sat down on the couch again, you curled up against my side, like you used to when you were a toddler. What I wanted to say to you, but didn't, was this:

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I drew it over my skin like a violins bow, No one would ever hear the song of my shame.

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I don't understand why it's a sin if you love something and want to keep it from having to suffer.

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Maybe you had to leave in order to miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was.

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I could not remember my first kiss, but I could have told you Charlotte would be my last.

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