.. I wrote about.. My childhood, when dreams were small and attainable for all. When sweets were a penny and god was a rabbit.
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You said I could be anything I wanted when I was older', I said. She smiled and said, 'And you can be. But it's not very easy to become Jewish.''I know,' I said forlornly, 'I need a number.'And she suddenly stopped smiling.
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Shut up, Arthur,' said my mother, and he zipped his mouth shut like an infuriating child. Ginger started to laugh. Not at anything in particular, but just because Ginger was stoned.
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Nothing stays forgotten for long, Elly. Sometimes we simply have to remind the world that we're special and that we're still here.
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.. Shunning all offers of help, all offers of the more practical.. This was his task, he said, and it would be carried out alone. Penance, my brother reminded me, was a lonely place to be.
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I pulled the blanket around my shoulders. The sky was dark and vast and empty and not even a plane disturbed that sullen stillness, not even a star. The emptiness above was now mine within. It was a part of me, like a freckle, like a bruise. Like a middle name now one acknowledged.
Their banter was rich and comfortable, their teasing intimate and profound; their 'I love you' without the use of those startling words.
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You see, that's who you are, Joe. All these things. That's the person I know, and through him is the way you'll know me, because connected to all these things are, and for so many of them, I was there. And that's the thing that hurts so much.. You see, you were the only person who knew. Because were there. You were my witness. And you make sense of the fucked-up mess I become every now and then. And I could at least look at you and think, at least he knows why I am the way I am. There reasons. But I can't do that anymore and I feel so lonely.
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I wondered if all women did with other women was lie and hug.
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