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This is a difficult balance, telling the truth: how much to share, how much to keep, which truths will wound but not ruin, which will cut too deep to heal.

Ally Condie

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Ally Condie
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 2
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Cedar City
Utah
Cutting
Ruin
Deep
Truths
Share
Ruins
Difficult
Wounds
Keep
Heal
Truth
Honesty
Much
Telling
Balance
Wound

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We could have been happy. I know that, and it is perhaps the hardest thing to know.
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Once you want something, everything changes. Now I want everything. More and more and more.
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I had really great parents who always gave me lots of opportunity for choice, but I didnt always realize how rare that was for a girl for them to say, You can be a mom or have a career or do both or do something we havent thought of yet.
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