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But I am more than a name. More than they tell me

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Mary E. Pearson
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: August 14
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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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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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Chance. It weaves through our lives like a golden thread, sometimes knotting, tangling, and breaking along the way. Loose threads are left hanging, but the in and out, the back and forth continues, the weaving goes on. It doesn't stop.
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Percentages! Those are for economists, polls, and politicians. Percentages can't define your identity.
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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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When your life has had few events to occupy it, it's amazing how a simple encounter can seem like an entire three-act play.
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We all have a dark place in us. It's what we do with it and the choice we make.
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It can take years to mold a dream. It takes only a fraction of a second for it to be shattered.
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I created an icicle sculpture in the snow. White on white.
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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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On a small planet, where minute follows minute, day follows day, year follows year, where tradition marches on with a deafening, orderly beat -sometimes the order is disturbed by a dreamer, an artist, a scribbler - sometimes the beat is changed one person at a time.
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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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It's the unknown that I fear, the bites of memories that still have no connections.
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I thought grandmothers had to like you. It’s a law or something.
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It's other people who make us wise, and I haven't known nearly enough.
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I used to be someone.
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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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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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...and time becomes a forgotten detail.
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Whatever you choose for your stationery is your favorite color because it's where you pour your heart out.
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