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Mary E. Pearson
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: August 14
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Father says it will come in time. “Time heals,” he says. I don’t tell him that I don’t know what time is.
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A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten . . .
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What I think is all I have left. My mind is the only thing that makes me different from a fancy toaster. What we think does matter-it's all we truly have.
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it is amazin, she thinks, how simple appearances can be created - a rush, a smile, a new coat of paint, a slow, calm voice, a hug, a new dress - a resolve to keep out questions and cling to secrets
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I thought grandmothers had to like you. It’s a law or something.
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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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There are all kinds of friends you make in life... But there's something different about someone who spreads their wings with you.
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Picture yourself five years from now. Where do you want to be? Remember that. Every day. That's how you'll get there.
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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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When you are perfect, is there anywhere else to go?
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Maybe we all have a dark place inside of us, a place where dark thoughts and darker dreams live, but it doesn't have to become who we are.
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Are the details of our lives who we are, or is it owning those details that makes the difference?
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I don't want five hundred billion neural chips. I want guts.
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...and time becomes a forgotten detail.
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Multiple closets for different needs. Overkill.
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It's other people who make us wise, and I haven't known nearly enough.
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Words have longer lives than people.
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He believes me. But that is nothing new. He always did because I was a rule follower. I played by the rules he understood. But there are new rules now, ones he doesn't know yet. He'll learn. Just as I'm learning.
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... Change doesn't happen overnight-it's molded by people who don't give up
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Percentages! Those are for economists, polls, and politicians. Percentages can't define your identity.
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