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"My heart started to race, and my palms grew damp. I walked down the bus aisle to the tiny restroom in the rear and washed up in the mental basin. I studied my face in the mirror and wondered what New Yorkers would think when they looked at me"

Explanation: It's her first day in New York and she is planning on starting fresh and becoming a new person. She will now get away from her toxic parents and find herself.

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" "Life's too short to worry about what other people think," Mom said."

Explanation: Although Rose mary isn't the best person she know's who she is and really doesn't care about what people think about her. She finds conformity in who she is.

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" "It's no longer just a bust," Dad said. "Now it has symbolic value. You can call it Mute Bard."
"I spent days on that," Lori shouted. "And you've ruined it!"
"I elevated it," Dad said. He told Lori he would help her write a paper that would demonstrate that shakespeare's plays had multiple authors, like Rembrant's paintings. "By God, You'll set the literary world on edge!" Lori screamed "I just want to win a stupid little scholarship!" "Goddammit, you're thinking like a sheep," Dad said. "Sheep don't win horse races."

Explanation: Lori is just trying to get life together and become her own person but Rex is trying to force something that she isnt on her.

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" "You mean you own land worth a million dollars?" I was thunder-struck. All those years in welch with no food, no coal, no plumbing, and Mom had been sitting on land worth a million dollars?"

Explanation: Rose Mary allowed her children to starve to go with a lot of basic necessities even though she had land worth a million dollars and when she did get money she spent on herself.

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"Since mom and dad had all this money, we got our own telephone. We had never owned a telephone before, and whenever it rang, we kids all scrambled for it. Whoever got there first summoned up a super-snooty English accent: "Walls residence, the butler speaking, may I help you?" while the rest of us crack up."

Explanation: Although their life isn't the greatest they still find joy and laughter in the small things. Moments like these are what will bring them close to together later on in their life.

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" "Lori may not miss you, honey bunch, but i sure do," Dad said. "You shouldn't be in this antiseptic joint." He sat down on my bed and started telling me the story about the time Lori got sung by a poisonous scorpion."

Explanation: Even through all the trouble and chaos that goes on in the family her father has always tried to express his love for her. Although jeannette was upset about Lori's reply her father managed to pick up her spirit again.