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Home is where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.”
Yet man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
“They’re girls,” she replied briefly. “They were born in danger and will live their lives in that condition, regardless of circumstance.”
Do women hold back the evolution of such things as freedom and other social ideals, out of fear for themselves or their children? Or do they in fact inspire such things—and the risks required to reach them—by providing the things worth fighting for? Not merely fighting to defend, either, but to propel forward, for a man wanted more for his children than he would ever have.
“I’ve heard it said that a man’s reach must exceed his grasp—or what’s a heaven for?”
It was possible to leave things behind—places, people, memories—at least for a time. But places held tight to the things that had happened in them, and to come again to a place you had once lived was to be brought face-to-face with what you had done there and who you had been.
