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Women always put men first. That's how everything got so screwed up.
Janet Fitch
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Janet Fitch
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: November 9
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California
Janet Elizabeth Fitch
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That kind of tenderness couldn't be permitted to last. You only got a taste, enough to know what perfection meant, and then you paid for it the rest of your life. Like the guy chained to a rock, who stole fire. The gods made an eagle eat his liver for all eternity. You paid for every second of beauty you managed to steal.
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without my wounds, who was I? My scars were my face, my past was my life.
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Although she was giddy with exhaustion, sleep was a lover who refused to be touched.
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I thought of my mother as Queen Christina, cool and sad, eyes trained on some distant horizon. That was where she belonged, in furs and palaces of rare treasures, fireplaces large enough to roast a reindeer, ships of Swedish maple.
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Never apologize. Never explain.
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Beauty was empty as a gourd, vain as a parakeet. But it had power. It smelled of musk and oranges and made you close your eyes in a prayer.
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To know I was beautiful in his eyes made me beautiful.
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echo, the death of a sound that had nowhere to go but to come back.
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We strive for beauty and balance, the sensual over the sentimental.
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She should think about her own soul, what she was going to do with this funky tattered pond dank item. Dark and stained, a ruined thing.
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They say drugs are not the answer, but really, what is the question?
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she’s not as pretty as you,” I said “But she’s a simpler girl,” my mother whispered.
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I almost said, you're not broken, you're just going through something. But i couldn't. She knew. There was something terribly wrong with her, all the way inside. She was like a big diamond with a dead spot in the middle. I was supposed to breathe life into that dead spot, but it hadn't worked.
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It was only natural to want to destroy something you could never have.
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Her fingers moved among barnacles and mussels, blue-black, sharp-edged. Neon red starfish were limp Dalis on the rocks, surrounded by bouquets of stinging anemones and purple bursts of spiny sea urchins.
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Panic was the worst thing. When you panicked, you couldn't see possibilities. Then came despair.
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I couldn't imagine owning beauty like my mothers. I wouldn't dare.
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How can I shed tears for a man I should never have allowed to touch me in any way?
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like a kid kicked out of class. humiliated and free.
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