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Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!

Barbara Kingsolver

…prodigal summer, the season of extravagant procreation. It could wear out everything in its path with its passionate excesses, but nothing alive with wings or a heart or a seed curled into itself in the ground could resist welcoming it back when it came.
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Heart Summer Wings
Honk if you love Jesus, text while driving if you want to meet up.
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Driving Honk Jesus Love
They all attended Hester’s church, which Dellarobia viewed as a complicated pyramid scheme of moral debt and credit resting ultimately on the shoulders of the Lord, but rife with middle managers.
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Church Pyramid Scheme
If it’s important, your heart remembers.
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Heart Important Remember
We’re animals. We’re born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.
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Animal Born Mammals
Growing food was the first activity that gave us enough prosperity to stay in one place, form complex social groups, tell our stories, and build our cities.
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Cities Firsts Groups
Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
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Empathy Fiction Stranger
There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, ‘There now, hang on, you’ll get over it.’ Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
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Cancer Depression Sadness
A good title holds magic, some cognitive dissonance, a little grit between the teeth, but above all it is the jumping-off place into wonder.
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Book Jumping Magic
You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they’re not self-sufficient.
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Crazy People Self
He needs to go rub his soul against life.
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Life Need Rub Soul
A dog can’t think that much about what he’s doing, he just does what feels right.
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Doe Dog Thinking
I prefer to remain anomalous.
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Prefer Remain
Height isn’t something you can have and just let be, like nice teeth or naturally curly hair. People have this idea you have to put it to use, playing basketball, for example, or observing the weather up there. If you are a girl, they feel a particular need to point your height out to you, as if you might not have noticed.
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Basketball Girl Nice
A flower is a plant’s way of making love.
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Flower Making Love Way
Downstream is always someone else’s up.
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Always Downstream Else Someone

Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!

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