In the Shadow of the Valley: A Memoir
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Read between January 3 - January 16, 2022
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I went from being a child who did not speak up, to being an adult who did not.
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I learned that when things looked wrong, felt wrong, there had to be something I didn’t understand.
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didn’t want to be anyone else, because if I was someone else, someone else would have to be me, and nobody else could do it. I was nine, and I gave it no further thought. I
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If you can survive the weight of bills you can’t pay and the emotional demand of children who you know deserve to be loved better than you know how to love, and if you can endure the loneliness and the panic that takes your breath away when you imagine what would happen to your children if you died or someone took them from you, then you just might make it, eventually. So I hear.
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I couldn’t fathom the difficulty of mothering a girl, with so much unhealed trauma around the experience of being a woman.
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A pain that my children will notice in some form, no matter how well I hide it or how deeply it is buried beneath my love for them.
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wanted something beautiful and magical to swoop down and save me, to show that it recognized how special I was, how worth saving. I was not excited or inspired when I discovered I had to be the one to save me.