He sounds so young, Lonny thought. It’s like he froze mentally at fourteen, so that his body grew older while his consciousness stayed the same.
That’s what happens with people who’ve been released after so long in jail.
It also happens to people who’ve had traumatic childhoods in some way or another. I know my mentality is muddled up, part of me has stayed a young child & other versions of me have come along after other major changes, as the roadmap of my life is a bloody minefield, & then some!
