#may we be forgiven

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I'm feeling how profoundly my family disappointed me and in the end how I retreated, how I became nothing, because that was much less risky than attempting to be something, to be anything in the face of such contempt.

A. M. Homes, May We Be Forgiven

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From A. M. Homes’s May We Be Forgiven

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A guy rubbed against me but I think he was just trying to get by. He rubbed me, then said sorry. It was the ‘sorry’ that made me uncomfortable. The rub was kind of interesting, but when he apologized I felt like a creep because I actually liked it.

A. M. Homes, May We Be Forgiven

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She starts to cry. ‘It's just so terrible,’ she says. Which part? I ask. ‘Being human.’

A. M. Homes, May We Be Forgiven

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How can I tell anyone that there has always lived within me a rusty sense of disgust -- a dull, brackish water that I suspect is my soul?

A. M. Homes, May We Be Forgiven