“My mother was dressed in her beautiful yellow summer robe, the tie cinched evenly into a bow at the exact center of her waist, but her auburn hair was sticking up in the back, an occasional occurrence that I always hated seeing, since in my mind it suggested a kind of incompetence. It was an unruly cowlick, nearly impossible to tame \u2014 I knew this, having an identical cowlick of my own \u2014 but I did not forgive its presence on my mother. It did not go with the rest of her looks: her deep blue eyes, her thin, sculptured nose, her high cheekbones, her white, white skin \u2014 all signs, I was certain, of some distant link to royalty.” \u2014 What We Keep by Elizabeth Berg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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