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“I get mad at everyone because they are working, living. Sometimes I hate you because you're not dying. Isn't that awful?”

Life Work Dying Anger Jealousy Heatlh

Book:A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories

Source: A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories

“...well, I guess it is natural when one is dying to sort of sum up what has mattered, what has been beautiful.”

Life Past Death Dying Meaning

Book:A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories

Source: A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories

“On the plane to Mexico City, I thought about how death shreds time. My ordinary life had vanished.”

Life Death Time Change Loss Grief

Book:A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories

Source: A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories

“I told her funny stories about our mother. How once she tried and tried to open a bag of Granny Goose potato chips, then gave up. "Life is just too damn hard," she said and tossed the bag over her shoulder.”

Life Challenges Giving Up Parents Mothers Difficulties Potato Chips

Book:A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories

Source: A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories

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