The world does break everyone—that is a damn guarantee. The world breaks everyone, and everything. Families are snapped apart by death, money, drugs, divorce, the wrong thing said at the wrong time to the wrong sibling who will never let it go. Many of us are stronger at the broken places, but many of us are just . . . broken. Not that you’d ever know it. We humans are experts at hiding our broken parts. We love to pull ourselves up by the bootstraps. We absolutely insist that whatever didn’t kill us made us stronger, even if it’s all we can do to get ourselves out of bed in the morning. The
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