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"Sometimes, you have to manufacture your own history. Give fate a push, so to speak.
"It's not always easy being her daughter.' I think,' she said, 'sometimes it's hard no matter whose daughter you are.
"Maybe we were all destined to just keep doing the same stupid things, over and over again, never really learning a single thing.
"That first love. And the first one who breaks your heart. For me, they just happen to be the same person.
"As long as I didn't say it aloud, it wasn't real
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"Your mother won a special reward," she told me, "because everyone had a head in her pictures. We all applauded.
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"If you didn't love him, this never would have happened. But you did. And accepting that love and everything that followed it is part of letting it go.
"If someone is really close with you, your getting upset or them getting upset is okay, and they don’t change because of it. It’s just part of the rela...
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"But it's important to acknowledge that while we may make mistakes, in the long run, we may also learn from them.
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