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But you know, love and light and forgiveness and stuff. Except for . . .” (lists forty-five people who will never escape my wrath).
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however you feel about that concept, it ultimately results in a loss of art from some of the people I want to hear from most.
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And if you are one of those people, you will take jobs because you need the money, even if it puts you years off your career path because you don’t know any better and if you don’t survive, you die. You won’t ask for more money when they offer you a starting salary because no one told you to do that. Who would’ve told you? Your parents? Not a thing. You will have jobs straight up not pay you at all for days, sometimes weeks of work, and you will have no one to call who will say, “That’s illegal. Here’s what to do,” or even “No, I’ll call them.” You won’t have that cool thing where your parents
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How many times I’ve sat with people, even as an adult, wishing I could hold their hand, or lie in their lap, or cry in front of them, or tell them how I really felt about them, or ask them how they really felt about me, and how many hours I wasted thinking of how I would do it, when I should do it, begging myself to “just do it now! Who cares!” Then once I did it, I’d wish I’d done it so much sooner because it was fine, it was safe, I was safe.
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She told me you could eat seaweed straight out of the ocean and we did and it was the freest, most little kid feeling.
Of knowing things could still be new, that there were still so many good things left to experience.
But my point is, I think that’s what you do. You book that trip for yourself, you take yourself to dinner and enjoy it the same as if someone else took you out. You take all that love you keep giving to selfish idiots and try to throw some of it in the general direction of your own heart and you pray even a little bit of it sticks there.
