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by Rivers Solomon

Eve has read that book that circulates widely, about the children of emotionally immature parents, and knows that if you’re waiting for some admittance of wrongdoing, of mistake, if you need an apology to move on, it will never come. Never. The realization that validation of the pain will never come from those who inflicted the pain has the power to obliterate. Did it happen? If they’re not apologizing, if they’re not admitting they’ve done it, did they do it? What is real? What is true? Is my life a fantasy? Then let me wake up by dying.

Humans are gods, making worlds, then making miseries of those worlds.