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Other people hide themselves, after all; they work so hard to do it. But a writer once said that pain reveals things.-ASG

And then he told me. With a soft country voice and his eyes gazing at a photograph on the wall. A careful man, touching my arm. -ASG

I was a careful woman, a good gardener, and I pruned away the doubt. -ASG

You know the heart: every night, it grows a thorn.-ASG

And of course I enjoyed his company, as the lonely wife of any missionary appreciates a guest to her far-flung outpost.

Beautiful; he kept saying I was beautiful; it was a strange as someone telling me I was French. -ASG

"Hello ma'am, I hope you can help me."
With those ordinary words everything would change.-ASG

I took those duties seriously. -ASG

And he was mine, of all incredible things.-ASG

He was too beautiful a man to lose and I loved him.-ASG

For here we are so far from home. The one we could never regain. Who could know him better than i? -ASG

A sudden memory of home, opening like a pop-up book. -ASG

I knew him. The boy who had held my hand all the way to Childress his heart I had, at least briefly, possessed.. - ASG

It was as if the world had been enchanted all along and no one had told me. -ASG

I knew him, but you do not judge a man by what he says. You judge him by what he does, and one clear bright night in May when we walked by the strawberry patch, he held my hands all the way to Childress. -ASG

I was a teenager when I fell in love with Holland Cook. -ASG

That is how I think of it. That I must look at everything around it, all the hidden stories, the unseen parts, so that somewhere in the middle - turning like a dark star-it will reveal itself at last. -ASG

I was a vigilant wife. -ASG

One morning we awaken. Beside us, that familiar sleeping body in the bed: a new kind of stranger. -ASG

Perhaps you cannot see a marriage. Like those giant heavenly Bodies invisible to the human eye, it can only be charted by its gravity it's pull on everything around it. -ASG

We think we know the ones we love. -ASG

We file into a sleek lobby with a mosaic of a river teeming with fish.-EM

I'm eager for caffeine and warmth; we had inside. -EM

To have such a visceral connection to one's fore- bears feels exotic and a little scary.-EM

A tattoo of three hearts trails the inside of her wrist. She seems normal.-EM

We look not at the things which are what you would call scene, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal. But the things which are not seen are eternal. -ML

It seemed to travel with her, just sweep her aloft in the power of song, so that she was moving in glory among the stars, and for a moment she too, felt the words Darkness and Light had no meaning, and only this melody was real. -ML

No. No. You must wait until you are more calm. -ML

We're--we're shadowed. But we are fighting the shadow. -ML

She cheated on the seesaw of love and hate, and the Black Thing pushed her down into hate. -ML

I am different and I am happy. -ML