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Ivy Lodge: A Memoir of Translation and Discovery

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“I needed my mother, or I needed a mother, even though I was well past an age to justify that need. (224)”

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“Unconditional love in my family was rare; you had to earn love, but it proved to be an elusive goal, the artist's vanishing point, unreachable in the distance. The more I tried to earn my parents' respect, the more it backfired, having the opposite effect (191).”

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“I realize it has taken the death of both my parents for me to finally begin to see who I am, but not through their eyes. I’ll never forget them; my parents I have been in lockstep ever since I was young child, but their words drowned out my own voice. I’m starting to come into my own. (240)”

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“Tell me who I am, I’d asked my parents in so many ways. (16)”

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“My goal consisted of trying not to anger her—or anyone… (73)”

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“I don’t think I realized back then that I wanted to rewrite the past, though, perform a do-over. It’s only in hindsight I’ve come to this conclusion.”

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“For my part, I never knew who she’d be on any given day. Now that she’s gone, the mystery remains unsolved, part of my untranslatable life (161).”

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“Once our reasons to be together—our parents, our childhood years—had been removed, not much linkage between us remained (181).”

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