The Emperor of Gladness
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Two eagles were soaring over the shanty houses, their mildewed roofs like the backs of century-old whales.
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were somehow always cheery, but in a depressive, sentimental way, like Midwestern moms whose children just departed for college.
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“What family are you talking about, boy? This isn’t a damn family. Are you living in a fantasy? You’ve let that American bullshit rot your head in. Who the hell got the time to sit down at a dinner table with you and be a family?”
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Sony was at a group home with no job, inside a fatherless world without diamonds or second chances.