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"I heard her say, 'Don’t you be no sad mama for my grandbaby!'"
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"I heard her say, 'Don’t you be no sad mama for my grandbaby!'"

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"I had this whole story about how she lived in a city on the moon."
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"I had this whole story about how she lived in a city on the moon."

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“I remember you asked us, ‘Do I have to call you Mommy?’”
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“I remember you asked us, ‘Do I have to call you Mommy?’”

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"From a very early age I believed that I would be someone who studied birds — who somehow found a way to fly."
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"From a very early age I believed that I would be someone who studied birds — who somehow found a way to fly."

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“There’s vultures circling all the time.”
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“There’s vultures circling all the time.”

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“There are things you see, when the fire is hot, that you’ll never see at any other time.”
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“There are things you see, when the fire is hot, that you’ll never see at any other time.”

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"Farming...is about life over death rather than death over life."
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"Farming...is about life over death rather than death over life."

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“This was not going to be my moment that I failed.”
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“This was not going to be my moment that I failed.”

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“I knew I was a girl. And so that weekend, I got to be me.”
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“I knew I was a girl. And so that weekend, I got to be me.”

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“You came in just in the nick of time, like a knight in shining armor.”
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“You came in just in the nick of time, like a knight in shining armor.”

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“If he got it, he’d give it to you. If he didn’t have it he’d tell you how to get it.”
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“If he got it, he’d give it to you. If he didn’t have it he’d tell you how to get it.”

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“He would sit and tell us what it was like to be gay in 1890.”
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“He would sit and tell us what it was like to be gay in 1890.”

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“My parents were afraid this might be contagious.”
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“My parents were afraid this might be contagious.”

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"We would turn the sound on so that it sounded like tanks moving on the roads."
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"We would turn the sound on so that it sounded like tanks moving on the roads."

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"I remember just getting on my back and floating. And the next thing I remember, the EMTs were pulling me up on a boat."
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"I remember just getting on my back and floating. And the next thing I remember, the EMTs were pulling me up on a boat."

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“Because she was Asian, they wouldn’t accept her. Mom said she didn’t care; she enlisted anyway.”
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“Because she was Asian, they wouldn’t accept her. Mom said she didn’t care; she enlisted anyway.”

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“I was dead. Then she found out I was alive.”
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“I was dead. Then she found out I was alive.”

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“I remember feeling so in the dark as a student.”
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“I remember feeling so in the dark as a student.”

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"We felt a sense of gratitude that we could allow Elijah to rest in peace and not have to struggle."
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"We felt a sense of gratitude that we could allow Elijah to rest in peace and not have to struggle."

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“Part of me was like, 'he needs to walk through the door.' And he never walked through the door.”
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“Part of me was like, 'he needs to walk through the door.' And he never walked through the door.”