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"The cheetah licked my palm, his tongue warm and rough, like sandpaper dipped in hot water."

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The picture is similar to the situation described in the quote, which is the time when Rex and the kids climbed under a chain fence to pet a cheetah at the zoo in Phoenix. Most people would not trust a cheetah to be that close to them, but Rex and the man in the picture shows us something else.

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"Don't worry, God understands," Mom said. "He knows that your father is a cross we must bear."

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She forgives Rex for all that he is because she loves him. Later on, she also says something similar to reference in Erma. This shows us how we have to forgive people and their bad qualities, because everyone has a soft spot where they care and have feelings.

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"Never did build that Glass Castle."

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When Jeannette came to visit Rex and Rose Mary, they told her that he had an incurable rare disease. They reminisced on the uncompleted Glass Castle. The Glass Castle was Rex's focus throughout his lifetime so that his family would never have to ask for anything, but it never began construction past the foundation that the kids dug.

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"Lori would leave by herself for New York in June, after she graduated. She'd settle in, find a place for us, and I'd follow her as soon as I could."

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After getting a whooping from Rex, she decides that that was the final straw. She and Lori devise a plan for them to leave to New York after each end high school. This shows that Jeannette, Lori, and later on Brian, move from childhood into adulthood, leaving their parents behind.

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"'Hey,' he said. He winked and pointed his finger at me. 'Have I ever let you down?' He started chuckling because he knew there was only one way I could even answer that question. I just smiled. And then I closed the door."

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In a way, in closing that door after talking to her father about the old days and fun experiences that they had shared, Jeannette accepted her childhood. Both of them

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"Do you think they'll ever come back?"

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This shows how Brian, and frankly the rest of the children, haven't been able to trust their parents up to that point. They all have had to rely on each other, or just theirselves, for most of their lives.