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I think I was very often bored as a child, but boredom is not what I knew it as—what I knew was that I worried a lot

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I never, even for a moment, doubted what they’d told me. This is why it is that adults and even parents can, unwittingly, be cruel: they cannot imagin...more

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His parents’ pregnancies must have been all-out chromosomatic war

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You see parents as kind or unkind or happy or miserable or drunk or sober or great or near-great or failed the way you see a table square or a Montcla...more

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To experience commitment as the loss of options, a type of death, the death of childhood's limitless possibility, of the flattery of choice without du...more