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children betrayed their parents by becoming their own people

The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender

The days she was finally brought out of the house would later be remembered as a day when shadows seemed blacker, as if something more lingered in those darkened spaces.

The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender

But while the thought of being dead seemed appealing, the actual act of dying did not.

The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender

To my mother, I was everything. To my father, nothing at all. To my grandmother, I was a daily reminder of loves long lost.

The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender

Fate. As a child, that word was often my only companion. It whispered to me from dark corners during lonely nights. It was the song of the birds in spring and the call of the wind through bare branches on a cold winter afternoon. Fate. Both my anguis...

The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender

She is the glorious reincarnation of every woman ever loved.

The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender

She didn't see it because when it came to love, she saw what she wanted to see.

The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender

She is the glorious reincarnation of every woman ever loved. It was her face that launched the Trojan War, her untimely demise that inspired the building of India's Taj Mahal. She is every angel in Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel.

The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender

He smiled then, bringing back that twinge in her stomach, something that she only later recognized as the pangs of desire.

The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender

Because I'm your mother, that's why.

The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender

Just because love don't look the way you think it should, don't mean you don't have it.

The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender