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We only think of the bad things that happen, rather than those that, through fortune, pass us by.

— Gillian McAllister Wrong Place Wrong Time (2022)

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But all kids rebel, even the good ones: they just rebel differently.

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Everything in parenthood feels so endless until it ceases.

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The past disappears into the horizon like fog, but here she is, able to live it again, to sift through it.

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The ground has that smoked-damp smell, winter revving its engine softly.

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Don’t all familial irritations get subsumed by grief, in the end?

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O Fortune, cruellest of heavenly powers,
Why make such game of this poor life of ours?

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Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave.

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