Carolyn Parkhurst Quotes About Story Of My Life

• All this to say: I am forty-three years old. I may yet live another forty. What do I do with those years? How do I fill them without Lexy? When I come to tell the story of my life, there will be a line, creased and blurred and soft with age, where she stops. If I win the lottery, if I father a child, if I lose the use of my legs, it will be after she has finished knowing me. "When I get to Heaven", my grandmother used to say, widowed at thirty-nine, "your grandfather won't even recognize me.

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  Carolyn Parkhurst

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  Carolyn Parkhurst (2003). “The Dogs of Babel”, Large Print Press

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