Now I'm starting to think he wasn't supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me.
("Prodigal Summer")
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Why does a person even get up in the morning You have breakfast, you floss your teeth so you'll have healthy gums in your old age, and then you get in your car and drive down I-10 and die. Life is so stupid I can't stand it.Barbara Kingsolver
Codi Gives you the willies, doesn't it The thought of raising kids in a place where the front yard ends in a two-hundred-foot drop referring to cliff dwellings Loyd No worse than raising up kids where the front yard ends in a freeway.
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I had decided early on that if I couldn't dress elegant, I'd dress memorable.
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I'm too fascinated to hide indoors or stay cooped up in our yard. Curiosity killed the cat, I know, but I try to land on my feet.
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I've about decided that's the main thing that separates happy people from the other people: the feeling that you're a practical item, with a use, like a sweater or a socket wrench.
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I had just dropped out of medicine in my first year of residency, a few months shy of becoming a licensed M.D. I'd discovered there was something serious, mainly a matter of nerve and perhaps empathy, that stood in my way.
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