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“Buiten is het maandag. Dat zegt de stem van de Canadese radio-omroeper vanuit de schemerige woonkamer. Sleet, later overgaand in echte regen. Heel Nova Scotia opnieuw onder een witte deken. 'Weest u vooral voorzichtig op de weg.”

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“The air was soft as I walked along Water Street past a lobster pound, a herring processor and a former cotton mill. Here was a terminal where the on-again, off-again ferry that ran between Yarmouth and Maine docked. There was a memorial to the 2,500 residents of Yarmouth known to have died at sea. Things grew quieter the farther along Water Street I went.”

Nova Scotia Yarmouth

Book:The Long Way Home: A Personal History of Nova Scotia

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“We were still fighting to hold on to what we had, whether language (Gaelic) or culture (Acadian), the transfer payments from Ottawa which accounted for a disproportionate percentage of provincial revenues, or the sweet rural life, which more Nova Scotians enjoyed than anywhere else in Canada.”

Nova Scotia

Book:The Long Way Home: A Personal History of Nova Scotia

Source: The Long Way Home: A Personal History of Nova Scotia

“I used to literally dream of Nova Scotia, its mouldering sea-stink and incessant damp, its buildings hunched like a linebacker's shoulders against the elements, its people with their mishmash of enterprise, humanity, and grit.”

Nova Scotia

Book:The Long Way Home: A Personal History of Nova Scotia

Source: The Long Way Home: A Personal History of Nova Scotia

“There's something about someone knowing where you're from, I guess. Someone who knows what you mean when you say "the Valley," pronounces Bay of Fundy correctly and knows that Musquodoboit is a place and not just a bunch of letters thrown together haphazard-like.”

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“I just raped a 15 year old”

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“Remember when we told each other no distractions? Yes. He runs a blazing finger over my earrings, touching each one in turn. Distract me.”

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Book:King's Cage

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“Sometimes, you gotta test your ngas gyat before you can achieve the 10/10”

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