"(After meeting her birth mother after more than……" — Jackie Kay

"(After meeting her birth mother after more than 40 years) We exchange bunches of orchids, laughing at the coincidence of the flowers. A little unnerving: I wonder if that choice has anything to do with genetics. ... I want to take mine home and look after them so that they live for days. I might spray the leaves, and make sure they sit in an easterly window, and keep them out of the direct sun."

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They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more. — Samuel Beckett
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