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Da had made becoming a woman sound like something dangerous.
“Humans are born to storytelling,” Da used to say. “Does the goat tell stories? The blackbird, or the sheep? No. Sure it is God’s gift to us and us alone.”
With this awakening, there’d been something else, too. A new awareness of her power. Freed from her prior inhibitions—from the compulsion to be nice, to be a good girl—she’d become something she could never have imagined being. She’d become … dangerous.
Most people just want an easy life. It’s unsettling when someone starts pulling apart the stories we’ve stitched together, the things we tell ourselves for comfort.
