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She examines the beliefs and conditioning that held her in an increasingly destructive marriage and unflinchingly documents what she did to keep her family together—therapy

the story is narrated by the writer Amanda Wordlaw

and collective strivings

I believe that is what my father wanted for me and knew I would so desperately need: a tool for survival

our patriotism

Give Me a Word cid_4605 She examines the beliefs andYour word is waiting, hovering just beneath the surface. All you need is the quiet courage to listen and receive it. Beginning in around the third century CE, a group of monastics known as the desert mothers and fathers retreated to the deserts of northern Egypt, Syria, and Palestine to pursue lives of silence and prayer. A key phrase, repeated often among the sayings of the desert mothers and fathers, is "Give me a word." This tradition of asking for