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Some things you never get over. Sometimes life makes you strike poor bargains, and sometimes you just plain don’t know what to do. And you just have to go on and do the best you can!
Sam thought he’d rather be like his father, who tried, than like his mother, who watched her life go by like she was a spectator at a parade that slightly displeased her.
She’d been around the sun enough to know that nothing—good or bad—ever truly lasted.
Hope was a thin thread to hang on to, but sometimes it was all you had.
It was a strange thing about getting old: everyone imagined you knew nothing about anything, or that you couldn’t “handle” it—as if you hadn’t handled a thousand things they had no idea about before they were even born.
Bring me all of your Heart melodies That I may wrap them In a blue cloud-cloth Away from the too-rough fingers Of the world. (Langston Hughes)
Due to the pt’s status as a feebleminded inmate of the N.C. Wayward Girls Reformatory, tubal ligation was performed to prevent any future pregnancies, as ordered by the State Eugenics Board of North Carolina.
