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"As I drove off, I honked the horn, once, and my father raised a hand."

crying in the corner rn

"We're so proud of you, Mom said, and they stood side by side as I drove away, their smiles sewn up with an edge of fishing line."

"After all, she had birthed us alone, diapered and fed us, helped us with homework, kissed and hugged us, poured her love into us. That she might not actually know us seemed the humblest thing a mother could admit."

I don't want this book to be over :(

“Once again, my salvation looked to any outsider like good and generous daughterliness.”