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They see her differently now, as somebody. And isn't that what everyone wants? To be seen?

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Libba Bray
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 11
Novelist
Writer
Texas
United States
Seen
Everyone
Differently
Wants
Somebody

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It isn't that we do what we want. It's that we're allowed to want at all.
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Tonight, she went into the woods, and I fear she shall live in the woods of my soul for the rest of my days.
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I know because I read...Your mind is not a cage. It's a garden. And it requires cultivating.
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I can see his pain, see it in the way he runs his fingers through his hair, over and over, and I understand what it costs him to hide it all.
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