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  1. J. Courtney Sullivan _ Commencement

    And then there were the things Sally knew her mother would have loved. Those, too, made it easy to imagine how she might come back to life, since nothing good seemed quite real without her there to approve of it.
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  2. J. Courtney Sullivan _ Commencement

    Sometimes April worried that she'd been built without some fundamental piece that everyone else had that just let them deal. Even her mother, who got involved in every lefty cause she could, seemed to be able to shake it all off at the end of the day and enjoy life. But the evil in the world, everywhere you looked, was always on April's mind.
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  3. J. Courtney Sullivan _ Commencement

    It felt something like being in love, but without the weight of having to choose just one heart to hold on to, and without the fear of ever losing it.
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  4. J. Courtney Sullivan _ Commencement

    You could sell crack on the street and go to jail for decades. Or you could sell a woman, and be back out by morning.
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  5. J. Courtney Sullivan _ Commencement

    April's just a Dixie cup of crazy. Lydia's more like a twenty-gallon tank
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  6. J. Courtney Sullivan _ Commencement

    All over the planet women were being tormented, yet if you took sexism seriously, you were a bore, an idiot, or a pain in the ass.
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  7. J. Courtney Sullivan _ Commencement

    With the Smithies, it was different. There was sometimes no telling where one of them began and the others left off.
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  8. J. Courtney Sullivan _ Commencement

    How could a person have and do all these stupid things--clip coupons and double lock the front door--and then one day just cease to exist?
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  9. J. Courtney Sullivan _ Commencement

    Bree knew this habit of hers rankled Lara more than any other--her ability to make a decision and announce that there would be no further discussion was, in Lara's opinion, 'Cruel and selfish behavior, the type usually enacted by men with small penises.
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  10. J. Courtney Sullivan _ Commencement

    A kid thinks her mother is just that -- . A mother is also a woman, an independent being, who doesn't want to be reminded by anyone, child or otherwise, of her tree-trunk thighs. The world made women's private lives a public affair to people who knew them and even people who didn't.
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