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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.Karen Abbott
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He was just a taker. She was a taker in her way too. They were taking each other, and they loved each other for that. -June HavocKaren Abbott
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Mother was, ' June thought, 'a beautiful little ornament that was damaged.' Her broken edges cut her daughters in ways both emotional and physical, and only sharpened with age.Karen Abbott
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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