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The writing I tend to think of as ‘good’ is good because it’s mysterious.

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I am not happy, help me — like a message in a bottle sent in each meal to the eater, and I got it. I got the message.
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Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children…
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To see someone you love, in a bad setting, is one of the great barometers of gratitude.
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But I loved George in part because he believed me; because if I stood in a cold, plain room and yelled FIRE, he would walk over and ask me why.
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That at the same time of this very intimate act of concentrating so carefully on the details of our mother’s palm and fingertips.
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But what I kept wondering about is this: that first second when she felt her skirt burning, what did she think?
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I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.
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And the warmth of the music inside her, did she believe, for even one glorious second, that her passion had arrived?
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Kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.
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The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom.
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That she might not actually know us seemed the humblest thing a mother could admit.
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Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles.
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I give boring people something to discuss over corn.
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Glen Hirshberg’s stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content.
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Mom loved my brother more. Not that she didn’t love me – I felt the wash of her love every day.
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It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.
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