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" Life will force you to make changes you never wanted to make. "

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Looking Forward

" I had grown up accustomed to living a life of high drama. "

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" I have spent much of my adult life flinching with pain as I tried to pull out the threads that bound the shadows of my past to me. "

" Children have a way of forcing you back into the present moment. "

" Vincente understood all too well what was happening to Liza; he had gone through it 40 years earlier with my mother. "

" When I look back at The Judy Garland Show, I have such mixed feelings. It broke my mother's heart when they canceled it. "