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What is family? They were the people who claimed you. In good, in bad, in parts or in whole, they were the ones who showed up, who stayed there, regardless.

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So you should remember that, when you're thinking about what other people can deal with. Maybe it's not so bad.

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This was how I was dealing with everyone and everything lately, taking the good when it came, and the bad the same way, knowing each would pass in its own time.

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Maybe not," she said as we came to the car. "But maybe that isn't so bad. You can't love anyone that way more than once in a lifetime. It's too hard and it hurts too much when it ends. The first boy is always the hardest to get over, Haven. It's just the way the world works.

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Accepting all the good and bad about someone. It's a great thing to aspire to. The hard part is actually doing it.

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But you could also look at it the other way. Like you're saying no matter how bad things are for you, I can still relate.

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When you don't know where you're going, maybe it wasn't such a bad thing to have more than you need.

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The thing is, you can't always have the best of everything. Because for a life to be real, you need it all: good and bad, beach and concrete, the familiar and the unknown, big talkers and small towns.

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When you have a kid, you sign on for the whole package: good, bad, everything in between. you can't just dip in and out, picking and choosing the parts you want and quitting when it's not perfect.

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Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because they somehow complete you.

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Because anyone that can make you feel that bad about yourself is toxic.

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I turned and looked into the gas station, where Wes was now paying, as the man who'd driven us looked on. "That's too bad," I said. "It's okay, though," she assured me. "Someday I'll show you an extraordinary boy, Macy. They do exist. You just have to believe me." "Don't worry," I said. "I do.

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I thought again how you could never really know what you were seeing with just a glance, in motion, passing by. Good or bad, right or wrong. There was always so much more.

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N the dark everyone felt the same: the edges blurred. When I think of myself then, what I was like two years ago, I feel like a wound in a bad place, prone to be bumped on corners or edges. Never able to heal.

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Really? Screaming? He shrugged. It wasn't that bad. But there were definitely some freak-outs on both sides. Though, to be honest, the silence was worse. Worse than screaming? I said. Much, he said, nodding. I mean, at least with an argument, you know what's happening. Or have some idea. Silence is… it could be anything. It's just – So freaking loud, I finished for him. He pointed at me. Exactly.

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