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I had come to feel that my mother's love for me was designed solely to make me into an echo of her; and I didn't know why, but I felt that I would rather be dead than become just an echo of someone.

Jamaica Kincaid
Mother, Echoes, Feels
Jamaica Kincaid (2002). “Lucy: A Novel”, p.36, Macmillan
I had come to feel that my mother's love for me was designed solely to make me into an echo of her; and I didn't know why, but I felt that I would rather be dead than become just an echo of someone.