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The last time the boy had tried to do it, his method had been, in the doctor’s words, a masterpiece of inventiveness; he would have succeeded had not an envious fellow- patient thought he was learning to fly and stopped him just in time. What he had really wanted to do was to tear a hole in his world and escape.

"During the long ride to the subway station, she and her husband did not exchange a word, and every time she glanced at his old hands, clasped and twitching upon the handle of his umbrella, and saw their swollen veins and brown-spotted skin, she felt the mounting pressure of tears. "

Why does this feel relatable? like I have been an aging parent visiting my fragile son at a mental hospital? I'm 29 and have no kids

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What he had really wanted to do was to tear a hole in his world and escape.

All this, and much more, she had accepted, for, after all, living does mean accepting the loss of one joy after another, not even joys in her case, mere possibilities of improvement