Beverly L. Anderson

Normal is a societal construct that is created by us. There is no consistency across civilizations. What is normal to one person is not to another. It once was normal to own slaves and be prejudiced against people of color like you and others. It was once normal to make women wear dresses and cover themselves. And long before that it was normal to cut off someone__ hand for stealing instead of putting them in jail. Eventually, all societal constructs fall to new ideas. Normal is one of them. (Varick Jaeger to Kieran Sung)

Fuck normal._ [Varick] took [Kieran__] crumpled wrapper and slowly straightened it out on the table. He began to fold it in half, then half again, and finally one last time in half, making a neat square. __ormal is a societal construct that is created by people. There is no consistency across civilizations or cultures. What is normal to one person is not normal to another. It once was normal to own slaves and be prejudiced against people of color like yourself. It was once normal to make women wear dresses and cover themselves. And long ago it was normal to cut off someone__ hand for stealing instead of putting them in jail. Eventually, all societal constructs fall to new ideas. Normal is one of them._ Kieran stared at him with his mouth slightly open. __ow, just fold up your silly wrapper like you want to.

Don__ look at me like that, I see those pink cheeks when you talk about him,_ she observed. __n my day, if I learned anything, it was to tell the ones you love how much love them. When I was your age, I fell in love with a beautiful woman. You know, fifties and all, I never told her, and she married a man that abused her terribly._ She paused, and Artemis could tell her eyes were dampening. __ went to her funeral two years after she moved away. In her things, there was a letter for me, telling me how much love she__ held in her heart and couldn__ speak. I was happy, my husband and my kids, but I always wonder, what woulda happened if I__ told her how much I loved her._ She smiled again. __ust don__ waste time, that__ what I__l say. Call it old advice from an interfering old woman.