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In a family, what isn't spoken is what you listen for. But the noise of a family is to drown it out.

Joyce Carol Oates
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Joyce Carol Oates (2001). “We Were the Mulvaneys”, p.112, Penguin
In a family, what isn't spoken is what you listen for. But the noise of a family is to drown it out.