You put me through hell. On purpose. Made me suffer. And there s no end in sight. I don t know what the fuck you re doing, ace, but this Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde shit ain t cutting it with me.
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Sylvia Day,
Reflected in You
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If my mother’s intention in whole or in part was to ensure that I never had to suffer any indignity or embarrassment for being a Jew, then she
If my mother’s intention in whole or in part was to ensure that I never had to suffer any indignity or embarrassment for being a Jew, then she succeeded well enough. And in any case there were enough intermarriages and ‘conversions’ on both sides of her line to make me one of those many mischling hybrids who are to be found distributed all over the known world. And, as someone who doesn’t really believe that the human species is subdivided by ‘race,’ let alone that a nation or nationality can be defined by its religion, why should I not let the whole question slide away from me Why and then I’ll stop asking rhetorical questions did I at some point resolve that, in whatever tone of voice I was asked ‘Are you a Jew ‘ I would never hear myself deny it
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Christopher Hitchens,
Hitch-22: A Memoir
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