![I had spent my childhood and the better part of my early adulthood trying to understand my mother. She had been an extraordinarily difficult person, spiteful and full of rage, with a temper that could flare, seemingly out of nowhere, scorching everything and everyone who got in its way. [pp. 40-41]](/assets/img/quote-photos/i-had-spent-my-childhood-and-the-better-part-of-my-early-adulthood-trying-to-unde.jpg)
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