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“Why did she keep these random items? How did they make the cut? Maybe she felt it had to be her decision what to keep, what to discard, just as it's my turn now, my decision as I go room to room, playing God with my parents' possessions. (148)”

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Book:Ivy Lodge: A Memoir of Translation and Discovery

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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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