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These friends didn’t take away my resolve to succeed as I’d feared. They made me stronger.
“Self-important?” Milana asked. “Check,” I said. “Heavily mustached?” Ružica suggested with a giggle. “Check.” “Overly confident?” Helene proposed. “Double check.”
“That’s good news,” Ružica announced, ever optimistic. We accused her of fabricating silver linings in the blackest storms. She maintained that it was a necessary outlook for us and briskly recommended that we do the same.
Sometimes, in the pages of my texts and in the glimmers of my musings, I sensed God’s patterns unfolding in the physical laws of the universe that I was learning. These were the places I felt God, not in the pews of Mama’s churches or in their cemeteries.
“Mitza, you are like the objects in one of Newton’s investigations. You tirelessly maintain your velocity through life unless you are acted upon by an outside force. I hope no outside force ever changes your velocity.”
surely a mother’s savage love could ward off the scourge of scarlet fever.
