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It’s not that I wanted to misbehave, but the most interesting things were always forbidden.
My curiosity was a demon that lurked inside me, awake and watching. When something caught its attention, the demon took hold. I became what my mother called shvibzik—the imp.
“It hurts because we love him. That’s the balance of life, hard as it is to accept. A heart open to joy is a heart vulnerable to sorrow. There’s no family without loss, no love without pain.”
“Whatever else is taken from you, never lose hope. Even if you see how dark the world can be, choose to believe it could be better.”
“Every mark on you is something you survived to get back to me. You have never looked more beautiful.”
“You think you could ever be ugly to me? You are me. You’re everything I love, everything I care about.”
Pain can poison people. It can twist and deform them. She suffered pain, but she never closed her heart.
