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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth but not its twin.

— Barbara Kingsolver Animal Dreams (1990)

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Every minute with a child takes seven minutes off your life.

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A wife is the earth itself, changing hands, bearing scars.

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The march of human progress seemed mainly a matter of getting over that initial shock of being here.

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