How can it be, after all this concentrated effort and separation, how can it be that I still resemble, so very closely, my own detestable mother? (Gabrielle Hamilton)

How can it be, after all this concentrated effort and separation, how can it be that I still resemble, so very closely, my own detestable mother?

Gabrielle Hamilton

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