“Big Ma was funny, as in hard to figure out. She had loved President John F. Kennedy but hadn’t wanted a Catholic president. She loved keeping up with the Kennedys in the supermarket gossip papers but also loved wagging her finger at them.”
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“Don’t fight against negative emotions. It’s exhausting. Try to embrace them instead.”
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