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[...] the quiet break of soul that comes when you realize that what looked like a rainbow was actually only a trick of the light.
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It's the child who's supposed to cry, and the mom who makes it all better, not the other way around, which is why mothers will move heaven and earth to hold it together in front of their own kids.
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Being a good mother, it seemed to me, meant you ran the risk of losing your child.
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It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye.
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Must you argue everything?""Yeah. I'm a lawyer.
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For just a heartbeat I picture the life I could've had if I'd joined a sterile corporate law firm on the partner track. I imagined meeting my clients in paneled wood conference rooms instead of re-purposed storage closets that smell like bleach and pee. I imagine shaking the hand of a client whose hand isn't trembling from meth withdrawal or abject terror at a justice system he doesn't trust.
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A lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Blocky and bitter and never quite right, like when you pop a piece of fancy chocolate into your mouth expecting toffee filling and you get lemon zest instead.
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But memory is like plaster: peel it back and you just might find a completely different picture.
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When it rains," her father said "it pours.
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