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“Something is growing in me, something that can’t be stopped, a plant that winds its way up my spine, seeking breath and light and power. When I pull into the McDonald’s again for a cup of coffee, I feel the beginnings of freedom.”
Voice Lessons, Voice Lessons: Tales of Breaking Free;
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“When she crossed that channel, which she had done many times in the past decades, she always felt as if she was taking tender steps across her heart. She walked across her heart into a new life. Ellie would walk into that place where dreams expanded; where the details of making a camp in the woods mattered more than the demands of life outside the wilderness. Here, Ellie could come close to having peace and expansion fill her—what she needed now.”
Finding Mother, Voice Lessons: Tales of Breaking Free;
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“But Carlos remembers Abuela’s quiet power, the way she held ailing children in her arms and cured them. The way she could walk down a village road when she was well. The village was complete with her presence, even though she’d been so quiet. She hardly needed to say a word. Her power had spoken for itself..”
La Neveria a short story in Voice Lessons: Tales of Breaking Free;
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“I may have looked like a fat old woman, beaten down by life, but I had big dreams. I dreamt them every night, in the women’s section of the Mission, when I was lucky enough to get a bed...There was going to be a big crowd—it was raw and nasty out with icy snow like knife darts, cold wind, a hopeless sky. People would die that night. “I got big dreams,” I told you. I was wearing green fleecy stretch pants, but the fleece was thin. You wore old jeans, barely held up on your skinny hips with a funny-looking woman’s belt. “Never had much use for dreams,” you said, and you looked at the trays and food rather than at me.”
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