“But it was like a badge, it was like a pledge, like a statement of ‘What if?’ A statement of ‘Here is my identity, here is what my pain is if it can be reduced to ink and paper. Here is what my pain is! Please help me.’ That’s what that was. ‘Please help me.’ I am deeply in trouble if I’m identifying with a sixteen-year-old boy in New York City and here I am a twenty-five-year-old man in Hawaii who is married. And inside this man, the tornado is ripping up everything around him right out of the ground, flinging bits and pieces of himself into his face. Silent cries and screams getting sucked
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