six word memoirs on coming home from war.
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Pregnant belly painting by Robyn Thompson. (Click through to see more.)
Caption: This design by Thompson, a variation on an Arabic protection symbol, was inspired by a necklace belonging to the mom-to-be. “Protection symbols are common motifs for anything involving pregnancy or babies,” Thompson says, adding that the flames symbolize strength, protection and purification.
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“The most difficult thing to admit, and to realize with one’s whole being, is that you alone control nothing.”
—Henry Miller, A Literate Passion: Letters of Anais Nin & Henry Miller
"It doesn’t happen all at once,” said the Skin Horse. “You become. It takes a long time. That’s why it doesn’t happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are Real you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand."
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The Velveteen Rabbit
