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“We went back and forth, week after week, as I remember it. I was stubborn and so was she. I had a point of view and she did, too. In between disputes, I continued to play the piano and she continued to listen, offering a stream of corrections. I gave her little credit for my improvement as a player. She gave me little credit for improving. But still, the lessons went on.”

GrowthImprovementStubbornnessPiano Lessons

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“AVISO PARA TODOS LOS QUE ENTREN AQUÍ: Si entras en esta habitación con lástima o para sentir lástima por mis heridas, vete a otra parte. Las heridas que sufrí las recibí haciendo un trabajo que adoro, para personas a las que quiero, defendiendo la libertad de un país por el que siento un amor profundo. Soy extraordinariamente duro y me recuperaré por completo. Eso era resiliencia. Era el reflejo de un espíritu de autosuficiencia y orgullo que había visto por todas partes en el ejército.”

Resiliencia

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“Lo que vi de la vida militar fue una lección de humildad. Jamás a lo largo de toda mi existencia me había encontrado con una fortaleza y una lealtad como las que hallé en esas habitaciones.”

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“La lección era que en la vida controlas lo que puedes.”

Experiencia

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“Todo el mundo parecía encajar excepto yo. Cuando rememoro la incomodidad de aquel momento soy consciente de que me enfrentaba al más universal de los desafíos, que consiste en conciliar quién eres, con el lugar del que provienes y el lugar hacia el que quieres ir.”

IdentidadAspiración

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“Time, as far as my father was concerned, was a gift you gave to other people.”

TimeGift

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“All my memories of my father include some manifestation of his disability, even if none of us were quite willing to call it that yet. What I knew at the time was that my dad moved a bit more slowly than other dads. I sometimes saw him pausing before walking up a flight of stairs, as if needing to think through the maneuver before actually attempting it.”

DiagnosisMultiple Sclerosis

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“It hurts to live after someone has died. It just does. It can hurt to walk down a hallway or a open the fridge. It hurts to put on a pair of socks, to brush your teeth. Food tastes like nothing. Colors go flat. Music hurts, and so do memories. You look at something you'd otherwise find beautiful - a purple sky at sunset or a playground full of kids and it only somehow deepens the loss. Grief is so lonely this way.”

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“To me, Southside was as big as heaven. And heaven, as I envisioned it, had to be a place full of jazz.”

HeavenJazz

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“When voters got to see me as a person, they understood that the caricatures were untrue. I've learned it's harder to hate up close.”

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“I've learned that it's harder to hate up close.”

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“Friendships between women, as any woman will tell you, are built of a thousand small kindnesses... swapped back and forth and over again.”

FriendshipKindness

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