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In that moment, I realized that the role of the raven-haired golden boy David played to my mousey-brown fuckup was not the plum part I had always imagined. It occurred to me that while I was egging the Neighbor’s yard, David never had a chance to try it himself. Destruction and rebellion are natural part of adolescence. But David, always cleaning up after me, compensating for me, lost that essential rate of passage

“Destruction and rebellion are a natural part of adolescence. But David, always cleaning up after me, compensating for me, that essential right of passage. Instead, he became a textbook son. And his only flaw was that he didn’t know how to be imperfect” -p46