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“ And I think to myself, wouldn’t it be so lovely if we viewed ourselves through the same lens as the people who love us?”

"She loved my dad. Loves? Loves, I think is the appropriate tense. I don't think you just stop loving someone once they're suddenly gone. I think that's what makes it hard."

"It's a funny part of growing up, actually… Accepting that things that are better for you, healthier—they can still be painful. That the worst, most shameful day of my life to date would in turn become the most defining."