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The cruelty of Haag is that it is transmitted by compassion. Mothers catch it, because they can’t bear to leave a vomiting child alone.
Just sending out a small seed of truth into the scaremongering felt better.
It was the thought of coping with stuff like this, with everything grown up, without her mother.
It was like the oversharing – he’d always struggled to contain his thoughts, his emotions. He’d trained himself to act so grounded the whole time, but then his feelings came spewing up, like a geyser – regardless of where he was or who he was talking to.
