But those were the parts of me I shoved down. Nobody wanted to see or hear that. That’s the other thing you learned when you lost a parent so early. Even though everyone says they want you to tell them how you feel, they don’t really mean it. They’re lying. Everyone wants you to be okay, and they definitely don’t want to hear any sad or dark parts. They want to talk about my mom dying like God needed her as an angel. Really? Like I’m pretty sure I needed a mom more. But, of course, I didn’t say that. It’d make people mad. Hurt their feelings, and I hated that. But that’s why Dad and I were
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