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The Belief in Angels The Belief in Angels by J. Dylan Yates
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“Last night I dreamt Moses and I were rowing underwater.
We could breathe and talk to one another.
We rowed past schools of fish and sea anemones and Moses named them for me.”
—Jules Finn”
― J. Dylan Yates, The Belief in Angels
tags: 60-s, 70-s, alcoholism, angels, child-abuse, child-neglect, coming-of-age, domestic-abuse, drowning, drug-abuse, hippies, historical-fiction, holocaust, islands, literary-fiction, majdanek, mefkura, new-adult-fiction, new-england-towns, paris, ukraine, women-s-movement
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“I don’t care if I marry. I don’t need a man to keep me safe or to take care of me.”
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“People don’t know, don’t really know, if things like angels exist, but they believe and hope and the hope keeps them going.”
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“rug, I stare at the carefully arranged members of Wendy’s pharmaceutical family in front of me.”
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“It’s already been too many days of Howard Hell, and I’m stir-crazy.”
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“I felt as much an imposter in my family”
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“it’s okay, even wonderful, to be different.”
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“envision the chickens wearing uniforms and caps, marching in formation,”
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“Massachusetts is, after all, the state that, in 1646, enacted the law allowing the death penalty for a rebellious child— the “stubborn child” law.”
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“Massachusetts is, after all, the state that, in 1646, enacted the”
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“the mother I imagined out of “Beaver Cleaver-land.”
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“The nurse asks if I’m hungry and brings me a bowl of Sugar Pops, which is neat because we never get good cereal at our house.”
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“The ambulance guy sticks a plastic cup on my face and tells me it will help me breathe easier. It smells like new Barbies.”
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“Meshugeners drive the Boston Freeway,”
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“Alcoholism in this mostly Irish/Italian Catholic town is more a winter industry than an embarrassment.”
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“There are parts of my life I’ve been absent from.”
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“The ocean, for me, holds the power to turn a moment mystical.”
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