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"WHEREAS my eyes land on
the shoreline of, quote,

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'the arrival of Europeans in
North America opened a new

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chapter in the history of Native
Peoples.'" And that's a quote

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from the apology.

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"Because in others,
I hate the act

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of laughing when hurt,
injured, or in cases of danger.

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That bitter hiding.

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My daughter picks up
new habits from friends.

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She'd been running, tripped,
slid on knees and palms

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onto asphalt. They carried
her into the kitchen,

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she just fell, she's bleeding!

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Deep red streams down her arms
and legs, trails on white tile.

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I looked at her face.

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A smile quivered her.

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A laugh, a nervous.

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Doing as her friends do,
she braved new behavior,

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feigned a grin.

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I couldn't name it,
but I could spot it.

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Stop, my girl.

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If you're hurting, cry.

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Like that.

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She let it out, a flood from
living room to bathroom.

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Then, a soft water pour,
I washed carefully,

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light touch clean
cotton to bandage.

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I faced her, I reminded.

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In our home, in our family, we
are ourselves, real feelings.

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Be true.

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Yet I'm serious when I say
I laugh reading the phrase,

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'opened a new chapter.'

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I can't help my body.

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I shake.

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The realization that it
took this phrase to show.

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My daughter's quiver isn't new,
but a deep practice, very old.

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She's watching me."

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