Midnight at the Blackbird Café
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Rosemarie has never called me a name in her life.” As Faylene sat down next to him, she chuckled. “Not to your face, anyways.”
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My thoughts were muddled, and all I wanted was a good, long sleep so I’d stop thinking for a while. I longed for silence. Peaceful, blissful silence.
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around. “She’s disappeared.” Bow said, “She went out the
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I’m all right,” I said as Mama prattled on, detailing another one of AJ’s triumphs. “
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gin? It’s been a long week.” I couldn’t hold back a laugh—it had been the last thing I’d expected her to say. “No gin. How about wine?” “White?” “Coming right up.” I found
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I want to create and design again. You see, I lost myself when he died, too,” Mama added softly. She didn’t need to tell me. I knew. Oh, how I knew. “In making all these life changes, I hope to find myself again, Natalie. A better me.” I also couldn’t recall a time when Mama and I had sat and talked
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I understand now why you rebelled, and I am so very sorry, Natalie.” My chest squeezed. “I’m right here, Mama.
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Pain changed people. I knew that firsthand—I’d said it about myself just recently.
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mother. You’re already on your way.”   22 Anna Kate “Are you sure you’re up for this?” I asked Natalie as we found our places at the Sunday
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looked like she was suffering. I was worried about her, especially after she left Friday afternoon without saying goodbye. “I’ll be fine,” Natalie said. “Ollie’s been watching
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Seelie gushed over the photos had to sting.
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She’ll get too comfortable here, and that
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I’ve decided regret is like cancer. It eats you from the inside out, just the same. The haze of my anger evaporated
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Sometimes people lie to protect the ones they love.
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“All I know for certain is that the blackbirds were here long before I was, and they’ll be here long after I’m gone.”
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The bread brigade is in top form.”
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“It’s in the past and we’re focusing on the future,
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My legacy, who I am, the person I am, is my family.
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All of you will always be in my heart, and part of me will always be in yours. That’s a damn good legacy, if you ask me. Don’t you agree?”
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You’re hurting because you love him. And the only way to get through the pain is to keep on loving him.
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when you have a gift you should use it.”
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Once upon a time, there was a family of Celtic women with healing hands and giving hearts, who knew the value of the earth and used its abundance to heal, to soothe, to comfort.
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you gave me the gift of more dreams.
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“That a person you love is never truly gone—they’re always there, whether it’s in a memory … or a dream.” Or in a heart.
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All of you will always be in my heart, and part of me will always be in yours. That’s a damn good legacy, if you ask me.
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You’re needing someone to blame to help ease the pain.
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Because I hurt. Good Lord, I hurt. Because I didn’t know how to cope, other than to run away.
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“There’s no rulebook on how to behave when blindsided with bad news,
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Sometimes the truth was hard to hear. Harder to accept.
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Forgiveness isn’t a science. It’s more of a feeling.
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“It was a choice. I could either keep dwelling on what had happened, letting it define me, or take the valuable—and sometimes painful—lessons I’d learned from the relationship and move on.
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It’s my belief that all Wicklow girls return to their roots—and their mothers—at some point or another.
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For where your roots are, your heart is.
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“I run away. It’s what I do when I can’t handle the hard times. Not only do I run, I also push away people who care about me. My therapist says I do it to protect myself—I remove myself from the painful situation. It’s taken me a long time to realize that running away doesn’t protect me from anything—it just takes me that much longer to deal with the real problem.
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“The thing about families is sometimes they get angry and fight. Especially our family. But that doesn’t mean the love isn’t there,”
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“The love is always there.”
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love. It’s enough to carry us through our grief.”
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“Love can see one through many challenges.”
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“We’ve come full circle, you and me. Right now seems like the perfect time start a new circle. A new beginning.
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“Sometimes, it takes almost losing something to realize exactly how important it is to you.”
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Small towns. I was growing fond of them, too.
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I’d become a hugger and a ma’am-er. How in the world had this happened? But … I knew how. Wicklow had gotten hold of me but good.
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You need to own that truth, Anna Kate, or you’ll never be truly happy.”
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“For where your roots are, your heart is,”
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Blackbirds only made daytime appearances on the rarest of occasions. Today it had been to welcome me home.
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He decided he was going to do what he wanted—not what other people wanted for him.
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He chose himself. A burst of pride brought tears to my eyes. I’d followed in my father’s footsteps after all.
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She’d been a nurturer until the very end.
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“What is friendship, Mr. Pavegeau?” He lifted up our joined hands. “I think it looks a lot like this, Anna Kate.” “I think so too.” But to my eyes, it didn’t just look like friendship. It also looked a whole lot like healing.
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Wicklow might have taken hold of me, but I was never letting it go.
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