You had a certain way of saying my name. It was the inflection maybe, something you put into those three syllables. And — Abigail Thomas, Safekeeping: Some True Stories from a Life
You had a certain way of saying my name. It was the inflection maybe, something you put into those three syllables. And — Abigail Thomas, Safekeeping: Some True Stories from a Life
You had a certain way of saying my name. It was the inflection maybe, something you put into those three syllables. And — Abigail Thomas, Safekeeping: Some True Stories from a Life
You had a certain way of saying my name. It was the inflection maybe, something you put into those three syllables. And — Abigail Thomas, Safekeeping: Some True Stories from a Life
You had a certain way of saying my name. It was the inflection maybe, something you put into those three syllables. And — Abigail Thomas, Safekeeping: Some True Stories from a Life
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You had a certain way of saying my name. It was the inflection maybe, something you put into those three syllables. And now you are gone and my name is just my name again, not the story of my life.

— Abigail Thomas, Safekeeping: Some True Stories from a Life
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