“One day you won’t be able to pretend everything was okay, and you’re going to hate us.” — Kimberly Rae Miller Hate Copy Share Image
“ate matzo on Easter and ham on Hanukah, and I was relatively sure that Christmas was somehow intertwined with my birthday. It… — Kimberly Rae Miller Birthday Copy Share Image
“hoarders tend to be perfectionists, that each item they collect is one crucial part of an ideal world they are ever creating… — Kimberly Rae Miller Ideal world Copy Share Image
“My friends lived in clean houses; I lived in a dirty one. I’d always known we were different, but until now I… — Kimberly Rae Miller Dirty Copy Share Image
“My father is a hoarder. I can say that now, and people’s eyes widen in understanding. Maybe they know someone who is… — Kimberly Rae Miller Learning Copy Share Image
“He might trail off in the direction of a shiny new thought and end up like the man in Penn Station, content… — Kimberly Rae Miller Business Copy Share Image
“father without my mother. He needed her—probably more than I did. I was afraid that without her to anchor him to a… — Kimberly Rae Miller Father Copy Share Image
“EVERY NIGHT BEFORE I went to sleep, I would conjure the image of the actor George Burns in my head and ask… — Kimberly Rae Miller Best friend Copy Share Image
“What shames us, what we most fear to tell, does not set us apart from others; it binds us together if only… — Kimberly Rae Miller Fear Copy Share Image
“I could sit in restaurants or parking lots with my parents forever, because I knew as soon as we pulled into our… — Kimberly Rae Miller Family Copy Share Image
“I only wanted a girl. If you were a boy, I would have sold you,” she told me, and I believed her.… — Kimberly Rae Miller Boy Sold Copy Share Image
“It seemed beyond my understanding that a mother and a daughter could not love one another. Parents love their kids, kids love… — Kimberly Rae Miller Children Copy Share Image
“In my reading I found that many hoarders have similar stories to my dad. Maybe they weren’t the children of abusive alcoholics,… — Kimberly Rae Miller Children Copy Share Image
