The man says, “What happened is baked into your bones, Edward. It lives under your skin. It’s not going away. It’s part of you and will be part of you every moment until you die. What you’ve been working on, since the first time I met you, is learning to live with that.”
I got the idea for this exchange from listening to a podcast, actually. I was listening to the actress Cherlize Theron talk about a traumatic event in her life that happened when she was around 13 years old--she witnessed her mother kill her abusive father. The interviewer asked Cherlize how long it took her to get over that trauma. She answered very calmly that she never got over it, that no one gets over that kind of thing, it simply becomes part of them. I got chills, and knew that that was exactly right, and how Edward would feel.
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