That her relationship with him was like being content in a house but always sitting by the window and looking out

We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls 'You can have ambition, but not too much'.

Papa sat down at the table and poured his tea from the china tea set with pink flowers on the edges. I waited for him to ask Jaja and me to take a sip, as he always did. A love sip, he called it, because you shared the little things you loved with the people you love.

How easy it was to lie to strangers, to create with strangers the versions of our lives we imagined.

That her relationship with him was like being content in a house but always sitting by the window and looking out

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