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Sally (Sal) Albright
Jean is Seneca’s mother, though Seneca believes Jean to be her sister. Jean abandons Seneca as a little girl, leaving behind a note written in lipstick that Seneca keeps forever. Later in life, Jean tries to find her lost daughter, but when she crosses paths with Seneca in a parking lot, Seneca doesn’t remember her.
Jean Quotes in Paradise
The Paradise quotes below are all either spoken by Jean or refer to Jean. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Seneca
Quotes
The third day, [Seneca] began to understand why Jean was gone and how to get her back. She cleaned her teeth and washed her ears carefully. She also flushed the toilet right away, as soon as she used it, and folded her socks inside her shoes. […] Those were her prayers: if she did everything right without being told, either Jean would walk in or when she knocked on one of the apartment doors, there’d she be! Smiling and holding out her arms.
Meanwhile the nights were terrible.
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Jean Quotes in Paradise
The Paradise quotes below are all either spoken by Jean or refer to Jean. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Seneca
Quotes
The third day, [Seneca] began to understand why Jean was gone and how to get her back. She cleaned her teeth and washed her ears carefully. She also flushed the toilet right away, as soon as she used it, and folded her socks inside her shoes. […] Those were her prayers: if she did everything right without being told, either Jean would walk in or when she knocked on one of the apartment doors, there’d she be! Smiling and holding out her arms.
Meanwhile the nights were terrible.
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