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What Doesn't Kill Me Makes Me Weirder and Harder to Relate To: A Memoir

by Mary Lucia

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The Birchbark House (Birchbark House, #1)

by Louise Erdrich

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Aimee said: " My friend's 10-year-old daughter gave this a positive review, so I'm going to read it. I find Erdrich hard to read and this might be an easier way in for me. ...more "

Jun 28, 2010 08:58AM · see review

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On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service

by Anthony Fauci

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Aimee’s Quotes

“If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.”
― Ivan Turgenev

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“Sometimes I say to a poem,

"I don't have the strength
To wring out another drop
Of the sun."

And the poem will often
Respond

By climbing onto a barroom table:

Then lifts its skirt, winks,
Causing the whole sky to
Fall.”
― شمس الدین محمد حافظ / Khwāja Šams ud-Dīn Muhammad Hāfez-e Šīrāzī, The Gift

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“the lesson of the falling leaves

the leaves believe
such letting go is love
such love is faith
such faith is grace
such grace is god
i agree with the leaves”
― Lucille Clifton

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