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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.