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1 " Real pain existed there. Not only the pain of pregnancy, but the pain of denying it. That type of denial took work. "
― Randi Pink , Girls Like Us
2 " Izella shook her thoughts away again, trying to reorganize herself into the sister with the right answer. Best thing for everybody was no baby. No baby for Evangelist to know about, no baby to send Walter into the shakes, no baby to split Ola from a girl into a mama. "
3 " A fly on the wall would’ve thought it strange--a daughter telling her mother she’s pregnant and the mother quietly taking it in. But this is how they were. It had always been the two of them quietly against the whole world. While her horrible father fought for his own political photo ops, they were there like this together. Always. "
4 " Sometimes you gotta let things be. Set it all loose or else you lose yourself.” Missippi reached for Izella’s hand. “You got folks loving you that you don’t even know are there. "