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Hood
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We go on not because we have to, but because we want to. We live the life we would have wanted for them.
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― Hood
― Hood
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The hood is also a low-stress, comfortable life. All your mental energy goes into getting by, so you don’t have to ask yourself any of the big questions. Who am I? Who am I supposed to be? Am I doing enough? In the hood you can be a forty-year-old man living in your mom’s house asking people for money and it’s not looked down on. You never feel like a failure in the hood, because someone’s always worse off than you, and you don’t feel like you need to do more, because the biggest success isn’t t
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― Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
― Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
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