Her mother was by turns tender and pathetic and terrifying, broken in a way that no one, in that time or place, had any idea how to fix.

Karen Abbott
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  1. And truth is malleable, something to be bent or stretched or made to disappear, but direct lies always find the path back to the one who tells them.

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