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Still, the time I spent with her was more precious than anything. She helped me forget the undertone of loneliness in my life. She expanded the outer ...more

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If you can't understand it without an explanation, you can't understand it with an explanation.

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... And that has remained an important mental landscape for me, a reference point. It teaches me something — or tries to. People need things like that...more

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It's not as if our lives are simply divided into light and dark. There's a shadowy middle ground. Recognizing and understanding the shadows is what a ...more

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Once he gets to the fort the colonel turns to John Wayne and says, "I did see a few Indians on the way over here." And John Wayne, with this really co...more

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In ancient times people weren't just male or female, but one of three types: male/male, male/female, or female/female. In other words, each person was...more

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Being tough isn’t in and of itself a bad thing. Looking back on it, though, I can see I was too used to being strong, and never tried to understand th...more