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"He felt split in two, one crazy man eating hair and one rational man watching a crazy man eat hair. He chewed and swallowed the last pieces of his father's life. He felt like he was building a museum of pain, a freak show, where he was the only visitor viewing the only mutant screaming the only prayer he knew: Come back, Daddy. Come back, Daddy. Come back, Daddy. Come back, Daddy. Come back, Daddy. Come back, Daddy. Come back, Daddy. Come back Daddy..."
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"His abusemakes her an anvilwithout spark."
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"Ultimate horror often paralyses memory in a merciful way."
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"No, I am never setting foot in this house again it scares me and makes me sad and I wish you could be a mom whose eyes worked but I don't think you can."
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"The first several years of my life were used to upload incredible amounts of fear, and I just became afraid of everything. I was afraid of my parents, afraid of my classmates, afraid of the streets of Washington, D.C. I would flinch at every gesture."
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"Shock is a merciful condition. It allows you to get through disaster with a necessary distance between you and your feelings."
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"Saying those words made a sharp, quick panic rise up in her, an aching pain that had her throat closing. "You left me, she repeated. Maybe it was only out of blind terror at the abyss opening up again around her, but she whispered, "I have no one left. No one."
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"The silences after his last gasp were sung together by a blackbird. I lay there, my eyes unable to close. His were unable to open. I listed the places where I hurt, and how much. My loins felt ripped. Something inside had torn. There were seven places on my body where he had sunk his fangs into my skin and bitten. He'd dug his nails into my neck, and twisted my head to one side, and clawed my face. I hadn't made a noise. He had made all the noise for both of us. Had it hurt him?"
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"But I don't know what to him about the aftermath of killing a person. About how they never leave you."
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"When I have flash backs from PTSD I wish my mind came with a delete key."
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"Between 60 and 80 percent of strippers come from a background of sexual abuse."
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"He sang 'Stairway to Heaven' in four different languages but never knew where that staircase stood."
Ignorance


"He wanted the songs, the stories, to save everybody."
Salvation


"But, in the Trump aftermath, I've measured the costsAnd benefits of loving those who don't loveStrangers. After all, I'm often the odd one-The strangest stranger-in any field or room."He was weird" will be carved into my tomb."
Alienation


"Summer coming like a car from down the highway."
Seasons


"My father was always depressed. When he was home and sober, he was mostly in his room."
Depression


"Junior based all of his decisions on his dreams and visions, which created a lot of problems."
Decisions


"My father is an amazing man."
Admiration


"The white people always want to fight someone and they always get the dark-skinned people to do the fighting."
Racism


"Somebody dies and people eat your food. Funny how that works."
Absurdity


"If it's fiction, then it better be true."
Fiction
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