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“I don’t want you to go,” he said, the tears dropping from his eyes, slowly at first, then spilling like a river.

“I know, my love,” his mother said, in her heavy voice. “I know.”


I AM NOT OKAY!!

“And if, one day,” she said, really crying now, “you look back and you feel bad for being so angry, if you feel bad for being so angry at me that you couldn’t even speak to me, then you have to know, Conor, you have to know that it was okay. It was okay. That I knew. I know, okay?

I’m afraid I won’t be okay after reading this

“How can invisible men make themselves more lonely by being seen?”