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‘These people, even if they did not really know me, were trying to look through me and into me, as if pressed against the bars of my cage, illuminating me with flashlights’.

“Only years later I’d understand that my parents were confused. I was their only child, and they were growing up with me. They couldn’t decide which rules to keep and which to discard. Their structure of behavior was dictated by a societal tradition in which reputation was the most important thing.”

“But desire can’t be girdled, especially not the lavish, life-altering, catastrophic kind that girls feel for wilderness.”

‘To an outsider it might look like I come from a family of hitters. But it was our love language. Sometimes the only way we touched.’