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This Ability To Exist In Pieces Is What Some Adults Call Resilience. And I Suppose In Some Way It Is A Kind Of Resilience, A Horrible Resilience That Makes Adults Believe Children Forget Trauma.

These Are Very Confusing Times. For The First Time In History A Woman Is Expected To Combine: Intelligence With A Sharp Hairdo, A Raised Consciousness With High Heels, And An Open, Nonsexist Relationship With A Tan Guy Who Has A Great Bod.

If You Can Stand To Wait 24 Hours Before You Decide The Fate Of What You Have Written - Either Good Or Bad - You're More Likely To See That Invisible Thing That Is Invisible For The First Few Days In Any New Writing. We Just Can't Know What All Is In A Sentence Until There Are Several Sentences To Follow It. Pages Of Writing Need More Pages In Order To Be Known, Chapters Need More Chapters.

We Don't Create A Fantasy World To Escape Reality. We Create It To Be Able To Stay.

I Grew Up In A House That Had A Whole Lot Of Trouble. As Much Trouble As You Could Imagine.