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Saltwater
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Families can be like that. They infect the way you think about yourself. They refuse to make space. You mold yourself around them in ways that contort you, change you.
“She would say it was because childhood never leaves us. We seal the room up and cover it in sheetrock. We dry and sand and paint, but the pocket of history remains, and sooner or later someone always winds up tapping on the wall, commenting on the way it sounds strangely hollow in there, and then the whole thing comes tumbling down.”
― Whistler
― Whistler
“But that’s the way it was with kids sometimes. They don’t remember all the fun times their parents spend on the floor being silly or running around a yard pretending to be a pirate. They remember our failures more. I read somewhere once that a parent needs to create five positive experiences to make up for one single bad one in their child’s life. Seems a cruel trick on parenting—the chips stacked against us from the start.”
― Mayluna
― Mayluna
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