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She Should Have Remembered That People Have Given Everything They Own, Everything They Are, To Be Taken Care Of, And To Have Their Pain Gone. It's The Lure Of Cults: The Promise Of A Good Family; It's What People Think Love Is, But Love Isn't Absence Of Pain, It's A Hand To Hold While You're Going Through It.

-Laurell K. Hamilton

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She Should Have Remembered

Laurell K. Hamilton

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She Should Have Remembered That People Have Given Everything They Own, Everything They Are, To Be Taken Care Of, And To Have Their Pain Gone. It's The Lure Of Cults: The Promise Of A Good Family; It's What People Think Love Is, But Love Isn't Absence Of Pain, It's A Hand To Hold While You're Going Through It.

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