There are those who choose the city because they’ve genuinely absorbed Wiley’s values so they’ve learned to hate the way their parents talk, the town they were raised in, their own names, their own skin. But then there are those that shed those things, not because they hate themselves, but because it is the only way to really feel safe. The only way to reach a place in life where you no longer feel like you’re always just barely not-drowning. I’d always assumed Adam was the former. But maybe, maybe he’s the latter, viewing Wiley as a tool not a salvation. I was dead set on Adam being evil,
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