'Sanctuary: A Memoir,' by Emily Rapp Black: An Excerpt

‘Sanctuary: A Memoir,’ by Emily Rapp Black: An Excerpt
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Jan. 19, 2021
This Particular Fire
My three-year-old daughter, Charlie, screams for twenty uninterrupted minutes after I break her graham cracker at snack time. She asks instead for white rice, and it must be “ice cold,” but the ice cubes used to chill it (a process she supervises) can no longer be present or even in view at the time of delivery in the bowl, which must be pink, and which she must select herself from the drawer where I keep her collection of plastic dishes. “I do it!” she insists, a statement she repeats countless times a day, often stomping a tiny foot and crossing her arms, like a parody of toddler behavior, only she is quite serious. I remind myself

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