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Because what do you know of it? Of the joy and horror of arriving at the place you’d counted on to answer all the nagging questions of your soul, only to find more questions? To get to the destination your inner compass has been driving you back to, screaming to you was home, only to discover that you didn’t really belong? Not anymore. Not really.
She wished—actively, often—that her mother could be someone she could call for help. That she could understand her ambitions, the world she was in, day in and day out. Wished, often, that her mother could comfort her or give her advice but knew she was ill-equipped. Raquel was on her own in that regard.
No, when I looked in his eyes, what I saw was the most dangerous thing of all in a man: insecurity. Because they will crawl over and push down anyone around them in their desperate thrashing to find themselves comfortably affirmed at the top.
