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Which weakness shall I tell her? “I walk funny,” I say, and she’s satisfied with that. (inside joke)

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Mary E. Pearson
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: August 14
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I still cry on waking. I'm not sure why. I feel nothing. Nothing I can name, anyway. It's like breathing - something that happens over which I have no control. (6)
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Percentages! Those are for economists, polls, and politicians. Percentages can't define your identity.
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Boredom reigns on all levels. The rain is a welcome change. I have seen the pond swell and the creek surge. I press my palm against the glass, imagining the drops on my skin, imagining where they started out, where they will go, feeling them like a river, rushing, combining, becoming something greater than how they started out.
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I think that maybe forgiveness is like change - it comes in small steps. (256)
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Multiple closets for different needs. Overkill.
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One small changed family doesn't calculate into a world that has been spinning for a billion years. But one small change makes the world spin differently in a billion ways for one family.
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I used to be someone.
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It's the unknown that I fear, the bites of memories that still have no connections.
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Pieces. Isn't that what all of life is anyway? Shards. Bits. Moments. Am I less because I have fewer, or do the few I have mean more?
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