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Do not engage. Remove yourself from the emotional minefield. This was why she was investing thousands of dollars in therapy, for exactly this situation.
No one warned you that having children reduced you right down to some smaller, rudimentary, primitive version of yourself, where your talents and your education and your achievements meant nothing.
She quite liked this aspect of her personality: the way her mood could change from melancholy to euphoric because of a breeze or a flavor or a beautiful chord progression. It meant she never had to feel too down about feeling down.
Two musicians could play the same notes and sound entirely different. Intonation was everything.
Everyone had another sort of life up their sleeve that might have made them happy.
“You’ve got the right personality for a trumpeter,” said Clementine. “You mean he’s full of himself?” said Tiffany.
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Elderly women were as tough as nails but it seemed that men got softer as they aged; their emotions caught them off guard, as if some protective barrier had been worn away by time.
It was interesting how a marriage instantly became public property as soon as it looked shaky.
That was the irony: Her mother loved things so much that she had nothing.
she wondered what sort of person Erika could have been, would have been, should have been, if she’d been given the privilege of an ordinary home. You could jump so much higher when you had somewhere safe to fall.
