We knew before we left the house that we would be bringing them home with us. They understand that this is an adventure and that their parents live in Gulfport. They fully understand that Gary and I are their surrogate parents and they will be staying with us in Waxahachie until it's completely safe for them to go back home.


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When I hear people flatteringly say, 'You're an expert on East Asia...' I'm certainl...
JENNY SHIPLEY
The reader who likes my stories, I think they would see the violence on the surface, but I think the...
JENNY ZHANG
Ten years ago in Nairobi we said that the participation of women in the decision-making and appraisa...
JENNY SHIPLEY
If you were to make a quick judgment call on my intelligence and articulation when I first moved to ...
JENNY ZHANG
I wanted to support things that are helpful to people and maybe bash what I think is dangerous. So I...
JENNY HOLZER
A change in bad habits leads to a change in life.
JENNY CRAIG
Chinese people as consumers, while they've always valued food and beverage for the health food q...
JENNY SHIPLEY
Wait!" he yelled.
I didn't turn around, I walked faster. Then I heard him slam his fist on the ...
JENNY HAN
When you come out of the grips of a depression there is an incredible relief, but not one you feel a...
JENNY LAWSON
I’ve fallen for the one person I shouldn’t have. For the boy who broke Mary’s heart. For Renni...
JENNY HAN
I delete the picture of him from my phone; I delete his number. I think that if I just delete him en...
JENNY HAN
Strength isn't about bearing a cross of grief or shame. Strength comes from choosing your own path, ...
JENNY TROUT
I'd never been a good damsel in distress. I was a "hands-on" damsel.
JENNY TROUT
That's when I finally got it. I finally understood. It wasn't the thought that counted. It was the a...
JENNY HAN
The one thing I like about 'Playboy' is they don't have the anorexic look. The women are...
JENNY MCCARTHY
Google is one of the most incredible breakthroughs that we have today. Yes, it can scare a lot of pa...
JENNY MCCARTHY
When I was a graduate student at the Iowa Writers' Workshop for fiction writing, I felt both cov...
JENNY ZHANG
I grew up idolizing Madeline Kahn and Lily Tomlin and Carol Burnett, Ruth Gordon, Rosalind Russell, ...
JENNY SLATE
Does self-acceptance ultimately require another person, or is there a kind of love that does not dab...
JENNY ZHANG
It can be hard for the cute girl. I was blond, cute, broke. I was beat up. I was thrown inside locke...
JENNY MCCARTHY
My favourite food is cake.
What kind of cake?
It doesn't matter. All cake.
JENNY HAN
Anyone who has dead straight hair wants curls.
JENNY ECLAIR
Sometimes it hurts to look at you,” I said. I loved that I could say that and he knew exactly what...
JENNY HAN
So much of art-making is about reducing things to the essentials, so I don't feel particularly c...
JENNY HOLZER
i worried he'd let go, but he didn't. We held hands like this the whole rest of the way home.
JENNY HAN
When my second child was born, I gave up acting - two young children out on the road was too difficu...
JENNY DOWNHAM
I couldn't wait to be an adult woman, and I'm glad I felt that way as a kid because, when I ...
JENNY SLATE
There's nothing like the peace of the countryside, the quiet and the lack of distraction. It hel...
JENNY NIMMO
I have a slightly contrarian streak as a writer, and one of the things I was interested in was how d...
JENNY OFFILL
My parents divorced when I was 3 years old. They had a lounge act in Las Vegas, where I was born. Th...
JENNY LEWIS
I'm constantly dodging people in L.A. There are some people I don't ever wanna see again, bu...
JENNY LEWIS
Dear ignoramuses,

Halloween is not 'a yankee holiday' celebrated only by gigantic toddler...
JENNY COLGAN
I'd paint long strips of canvas and abandon them on the beach, or put bread out in geometric pat...
JENNY HOLZER
After graduating from flares and platforms in the early 1970s, I started drama school wearing a pair...
JENNY ECLAIR
I've done both theatre and film and the fact is if you start believing, if you start reading things ...
JENNY AGUTTER
The things that I've done that have totally been remembered, they've always started with the same ki...
JENNY AGUTTER
I had written two or three books before my husband noticed that in every one of them a family member...
JENNY NIMMO
Why did my mother, a grown woman, get to talk like all her hopes and dreams had been shat on, kicked...
JENNY ZHANG
Even at age 10, I already knew that I was different from most people. My anxiety disorder was still ...
JENNY LAWSON
I demo all of my songs on Garage Band, where I pretty much play everything - not very well, but I ma...
JENNY LEWIS
I sometimes think my earnestness is confused for stupidity, but it shouldn't be.
JENNY SLATE
Those outside of autism need to understand this is an epidemic and we need more government funding, ...
JENNY MCCARTHY
I come from a duo, actually, quite literally. My parents are Linda and Eddie, and they had an act in...
JENNY LEWIS
Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.
JENNY HOLZER
Maybe you should say goodbye, Cal.'
'No.'
'It might be important.'
'It might make her...
JENNY DOWNHAM
It's really going to happen. I really won't ever go back to school. Not ever. I'll never be famous o...
JENNY DOWNHAM
It's all right, Tessa, you can go. We love you. You can go now.'
'Why are you saying that?'
JENNY DOWNHAM
The fact is, sometimes it's hard to walk in a single woman's shoes. That's why we need really specia...
JENNY BICKS
The desperate things seem to require attention, the lovely things seem to elicit celebration. If I h...
JENNY HOLZER