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“Later, older incarnations of that person would exercise greater mastery over his speech and gestures in interactions with other people, but occasionally that young, shapeless version of him would push through to the surface and take over. That person’s helplessness would be tied to a feeling of loss; of being unpicked, slowly, from their surroundings and from themselves …”—Pages 253-254

“For as long as I could remember I had been conscious of my body and its limitations. Run faster, play harder. Every gesture made me aware of what my body could not do. How could I stop sitting like a girl? How could I walk like a man? Sometimes it felt as though the very act of breathing was something I had to re-learn, so as not to be different from the others.”—Page 103