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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.

Mary E. Pearson

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Mary E. Pearson
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: August 14
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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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But I am more than a name. More than they tell me
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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 used to be someone.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten . . .
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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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It's other people who make us wise, and I haven't known nearly enough.
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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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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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Multiple closets for different needs. Overkill.
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Words have longer lives than people.
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When you are perfect, is there anywhere else to go?
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