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A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves - a special kind of double.
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Toni Morrison
Age: 88 †
Born: 1931
Born: February 18
Died: 2019
Died: August 5
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Chloe Ardelia Wofford
Chloe Anthony Wofford-Morrison
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Isolation, you know, carries the seeds of its own destruction because as times change, other things seep in.
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Sweet, she thought. He must think I can't bear to hear him say it. That after all I have told him and after telling me how many feet I have, goodbye would break me to pieces. Ain't that sweet. So long, she murmured from the far side of the trees.
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I want to feel what I feel. What's mine. Even if it's not happiness, whatever that means. Because you're all you've got.
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It was my father who could do no wrong. So I didn't think of it as, oh, look, my father's a violent man.
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Nobody loved her and she wouldn’t have liked it if they had, she considered love a serious disability.
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Much handled things are always soft(27).
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Most of our lives are spent in little towns, little towns all throughout the country. That's where we live. And that's where the juices come from and that's where we made it, not made it in terms of success but made who we are.
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