When we are ready to let go of our old controls, we admit that we were powerless over the incest or abuse...We have often thought, 'If only I could have stopped it,' but we could not have stopped it....
Maureen Brady
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When I came out into the outside room again, I saw her shoe still lying there, where it had come off in the course of our brief wrestle. It looked so pathetic there by itself without an owner, it look...
Cornell Woolrich
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death, heaven, dying, afterlife, after life, 20th century, after death, limbo, twentieth century