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Because I feel no anger toward my mother. Only loss, and loss is a feeling you can’t fight your way out of as easily.
Ally Condie
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Ally Condie
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 2
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Cedar City
Utah
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Fighting
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I realize now how much courage it takes to choose the life you want, whatever that might be.
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I can trust in my parents' love. And it strikes me that is a big thing to trust, a big thing to have had, no matter what else happens.
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Being a teen is past for me. Worrying about the world and my place in it is not.
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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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Now that I've found the way to fly, which direction should I go into the night?
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