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The first time someone I loved left me behind...I didn't know how my family would balance. We had been such a sturdy little end table, four solid legs...more

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males conspicuously leaving their mark to let others know where they weren't welcome.

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I lean against my sister's shoulder. "I thought lightning wasn't supposed to strike in the same place twice.""Sure it does," Izzy tells me. "But only ...more

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Sara," I ask finally, "what do you want from me?""I want to look at you and remember what it used to be like," she says thickly. "I want to go back, B...more

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Take it from me: love has all the lasting permanence of a rainbow-beautiful while it's there, and just as likely to have disappeared by the time you b...more

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For better or for worse, music is the language of memory. It is also the language of love.

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You can argue that it's a different world now than the one when Matthew Shepard was killed, but there is a subtle difference between tolerance and acc...more

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Someone real," I hear myself saying. "Someone who never has to pretend, and who I never have to pretend around. Someone who's smart, but knows how to ...more

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It was no coincidence, that fear could move a person to extremes, just as seamlessly as love. They were the conjoined twins of emotion: If you didn't ...more