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Like Miss Honey from Matilda but with that virginal sexuality thing ramped up to porno levels, if that makes sense.
A therapist once explained to me that a family system is like a play. Everyone has their role to perform, and if you choose to reject your role and reinvent it, it does not go down well, because it throws everyone else’s role into disarray.
‘Don’t you fucking tell her she needs these to look good in a dress,’ he shouts at the sales assistants. I hear one wet slap as a fillet presumably lands on the glass coffee table, then another. ‘Her figure is fucking perfect, and you know it. If you can’t stick to your job, which is picking out clothes and handing them to us, then you can get out and leave us to it. Do I make myself clear?’
When we met, Marlowe was working so hard to survive that she had forgotten how to play and I was playing so hard that I had forgotten how to feel very much at all.
