Evidence of Love: A True Story of Passion and Death in the Suburbs
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Sometimes I have doubts about my worth as a person, and wonder if I’m really accomplishing anything and am doing what God would want me to do. But if you express your pride in me, then I feel reassured that I am really important.… I need to be reassured and told this often, just as I need to see and feel tangible evidence of your love.…
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That’s when Betty started complaining. She followed him into the bedroom, half-heartedly helping with the packing but mostly looking for some kind of comfort before he left.
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genital infection common to women who do not have sexual intercourse often enough.
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Seriously???
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Jackie used to divide her friends into two categories: “front-door” friends and “back-door” friends. Front-door friends were the ones who only came by when they had a reason; usually it was to talk about church business, or to ask Jackie to make a hospital visit, or something similar. Back-door friends were the ones who never knocked, who headed straight for the coffee pot, who felt free to smoke and talk “naughty,”
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It was a nameless sort of depression, a sense that something was wrong, that perhaps she had chosen the wrong life.
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She wanted to pull the covers over her head and go to sleep and be a thousand miles away. She simply sat there and continued to cry.
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“Are the kids all right?” “They’re fine. They want you to know that we all love you.”
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Conventional wisdom held that a majority-female jury is bad news for a female defendant, because women are, presumed to be harder on other women than men would be.
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She was a person excessively concerned about what other people thought of her—a common trait in people suffering from dissociative reaction—so she tried to keep up a public front at all times. She wanted others to consider her warm and loving and concerned for animals and children, a person who didn’t have a violent or vindictive bone in her body. No one is that pure, so she had suppressed a great deal of anger over the years in order to satisfy her ideal self-image.
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“John Steinbeck once wrote that there are those among us who live in rooms of experience you and I cannot enter.