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Daddy thinks history starts fresh every day, every minute, that time itself begins with the feelings he__ having right now. That__ how he keeps betraying us, why he roars at us with such conviction. We have to stand up to that, and say, at least to ourselves, that what he__ done before is still with us, still right here in this room until there__ true remorse. Nothing will be right until there__ that._ __e looks so, sort of, weakened._ __eakened is not enough. Destroyed isn__ enough. He__ got to repent and feel humiliation and regret. I won__ be satisfied until he knows what he is._"Do we know what we are?""We know we aren__ him. We know that to that degree we don__ yet deserve the lowest circle of hell.
Jane Smiley A Thousand Acres
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Daddy thinks history starts fresh every day, every minute, that time itself begins with the feelings he__ having right now. That__ how he keeps betraying us, why he roars at us with such conviction. We have to stand up to that, and say, at least to ourselves, that what he__ done before is still with us, still right here in this room until there__ true remorse. Nothing will be right until there__ that._ __e looks so, sort of, weakened._ __eakened is not enough. Destroyed isn__ enough. He__ got to repent and feel humiliation and regret. I won__ be satisfied until he knows what he is._"Do we know what we are?""We know we aren__ him. We know that to that degree we don__ yet deserve the lowest circle of hell.

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