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She wants to stop being alone, just for a while, to stop figuring out all the incomprehensible clues, never moving forward, only backward, backward, backward, a game of snakes and ladders with only snakes.

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

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