A Nearly Normal Family

by M.T. Edvardsson

life to be built around trial and error. We are shaped and created by our trials.

I think of life as a state of constant learning.

I’m a person with an abundance of failings, a person who has made innumerable mistakes and errors. I am acutely aware of this, and the first to admit it. What I mean is that I always act with good intentions, out of love and care.

Experience tells me that when you dislike someone on such vague grounds, the problem often rests with you.

was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they executed

I so desperately wanted to be the strong girl everyone thought I was, so I couldn’t identify with the victim role.

Thérèse Raquin,