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To listen to a person is not passive. To really listen is active,
Her family was encased in shame. She felt this more than she thought it, the way children do.
The physical world with its dappled light was her earliest friend,
“Don’t come back. Don’t get married. Don’t have children. All those things will bring you heartache.”
She had recently, though, had fantasies of what they called “going normal.” Having a house and a husband and children and a garden.
“We need the cynicism of youth, it’s healthy. Stop degrading the efforts of mankind by calling them stupid, for the love of God!”
he opened his eyes, and yes, there it was, the perfect knowledge: Anything was possible for anyone.
