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- In the end, the tortures tearing the Lisbon girls pointed to a simple reasoned refusal to accept the world as it was handed down to…
- They had killed themselves over our dying forests, over manatees maimed by propellers as they surfaced to drink from garden hoses; they had killed themselves…
- She could become a spinster, like Emily Dickinson, writing poems full of dashes and brilliance, and never gaining weight.
- It was something every child knew how to do, maintain a direct and full connection with the world. Somehow you forgot about it as you…
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