Then my mother shocked me. She said, " All those things that you want from your relationship, Liz? I have always wanted those things too." {She} showed me the handful of bullets she'd had to bite over the decades in order to stay happily married {and she was happily married...} to my father. "You have to understand how little I was raised to expect that I desired in life, honey. Remember- I come from a different time and place... and you have to understand how much I love your father.
( Elizabeth Gilbert )
[ Eat, Pray, Love ]
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