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Friday, October 18, 2024

Want

                              Mother: I've given up everything I've ever wanted --
                    Maddie: (sighs) -- yes --
                    Mother: -- so that you could have --
                    Maddie: -- yes --
                    Mother: -- what I didn't.
                    Maddie: Everything that you've always wanted. Yes. I've
                                  heard that. Every mother says that. But I don't 
                                  want what you didn't have. I want what I didn't 
                                  have.
~ Lady in the Lake
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Having recently gone through Mom's house to determine the things I wanted to keep, I can vouch for the fact that the things she wanted were not all things I wanted. I wanted a few things, but I'm not very sentimental.

Sentimental comes from the Latin for "to feel." I guess maybe that means I'm not very feeling. 

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