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Once you get below the floor of our personal identities, we're all connected. Perhaps that's why we can move into others' lives.

Janet Fitch

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Janet Fitch
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: November 9
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Journalist
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LA
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Janet Elizabeth Fitch
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Never apologize. Never explain.
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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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We have no home, she told me. I am your home.
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My father was an engineer - he wasn't literary, not a writer or a journalist, but he was one of the world's great readers. Every two weeks, he'd take me to our local branch library and pull books off the shelf for me, stacking them up in my arms - 'Have you read this? And this? And this?
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I was tired of men. Hanging in doorways, standing too close, men who made you love them then changed their minds.
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The sound of her laughter was sticky as sap, the smell of night-blooming jasmine soft as a milk bath.
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I wish my life could be like that, knotted up so that even if something broke, the whole thing wouldn't come apart.
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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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He hated crowds, never liked punk. He couldn't handle the nakedness of the rage -his own so sophisticated and finely tuned. He could never see the similarity between himself and Donnie Draino screaming into a mic.
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echo, the death of a sound that had nowhere to go but to come back.
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I've been depressed many times in my life. But under it all I'm an optimist.
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I thought how tenuous the links were between mother and children between friends family things you think are eternal. Everything could be lost more easily than anyone could imagine.
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like a kid kicked out of class. humiliated and free.
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I couldn't imagine owning beauty like my mothers. I wouldn't dare.
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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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She’s never where she is,' I said. 'She’s only inside her head.
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They say drugs are not the answer, but really, what is the question?
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I'm a fish swimming by...catch me if you want me.
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purification in fire. public cremation
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When I start writing, my unconscious, my conflicts, my thoughts all start to come up. So for me, writing is an exploration. I never know how my stories will end.
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