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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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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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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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My timing is off. But I had to get it out. Some things you have to tell, no matter how stupid they may sound. Some things you can't save for later. There might not be a later.
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When you are perfect, is there anywhere else to go?
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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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Words have longer lives than people.
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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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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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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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I don't want five hundred billion neural chips. I want guts.
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I wonder at the weight of a Sparrow.
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A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten . . .
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... Change doesn't happen overnight-it's molded by people who don't give up
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I thought grandmothers had to like you. It’s a law or something.
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I think that maybe forgiveness is like change - it comes in small steps. (256)
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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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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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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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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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