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You got one choice at the beginning but if you didn't choose right, things got narrow real quick.

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Others can make us vulnerable and the sooner such vulnerabilities are dealt with the better

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It's a hard place this world can be. No wonder a baby cries coming in to it. Tears from the start

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The woman doesn't look up. It's as if she's deaf. Maybe she is. Maybe she's like the Cambodian women I've read about, the ones who witnessed so many atrocities that they have willed themselves blind. Maybe that's what you have to do sometimes to survive. You kill off part of yourself, your hearing or eyesight, your capacity for hope.

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I don't even have a choice. Rachel thought how that was pretty much true of everything now, that you got one choice at the beginning but if you didn't choose right, and she hadn't, things got narrow real quick. Like trying to wade a river, she thought. You take a wrong step and set your foot on a wobbly rock or in a drop-off and you're swept away, and all you can do then is try to survive.

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A place where something so terrible had happened shouldn't continue to exist in the world

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Ron Rash

Ron Rash

Born: September 25, 1953 (age 71)

Bio: Ron Rash, an American poet, short story writer and novelist, is the Parris Distinguished Professor in Appalachian Cultural Studies at Western Carolina University.

Known for:

Serena (2008)
Above the Waterfall: A Novel (2015)
The Cove (2004)
The World Made Straight (2006)
One Foot in Eden (2002)

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