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Murder at the Mission: A Frontier Killing, Its Legacy of Lies, and the Taking of the American West
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Oregon politicians and historians, well into the twentieth century, celebrated the beneficial cleansing effect of bringing highly infectious contagions from Europe to the Native people of the Oregon Country. “Always it will be a source of
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“Becoming a mother is already a rupturing event—an apocalypse of the heart, an undoing and a redoing of your world. In loving Fiona, my heart broke open. There was a certain kind of agony in this—one for which I’m eternally grateful.”
― Raising a Rare Girl
― Raising a Rare Girl
“Nothing the night said about the morning turned out to be true.”
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“Disability was not something to find blame for, because disability was not a problem. Through the neutral lens of science, my kid’s chromosomal anomaly was a product of diversity, and who could be upset about that?”
― Raising a Rare Girl: A Memoir
― Raising a Rare Girl: A Memoir

“In my own worst seasons I've come back from the colorless world of despair by forcing myself to look hard, for a long time, at a single glorious thing: a flame of red geranium outside my bedroom window. And then another: my daughter in a yellow dress. And another: the perfect outline of a full, dark sphere behind the crescent moon. Until I learned to be in love with my life again. Like a stroke victim retraining new parts of the brain to grasp lost skills, I have taught myself joy, over and over again(15).”
― High Tide in Tucson : Essays from Now or Never
― High Tide in Tucson : Essays from Now or Never
“…when therapists use a “deficit lens,â€� they tend to limit a child’s opportunities and view the child as a problem in need of “fixing.â€� But a capacity-building lens will not only meet and celebrate kids where they are, it often will create higher outcomes for them. In other words, kids grow more when professionals see their strengths.”
― Raising a Rare Girl: A Memoir
― Raising a Rare Girl: A Memoir

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