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Suddenly I realize with a jolt why they aren’t coming back: I have been classified as a “difficult customer”

They talk about my “options,” as though this is a decision between vanilla and chocolate, not life and death

I was deep inside the story of the Megillah, delighting in words I hadn’t focused on for so long

Good Mommy coaches her children to use magic words. Bad Mommy trains her children to be mindless, insincere automatons 

I raised you — and now you decide there are things more important than family

“If he gets through today okay, he could be home in a day or two”