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It seemed like a revelation to them, but really the revelation was only that someone took the time to sit and listen to them and appear to absorb their human condition instead of ignoring it.
There are few things more validating than to see someone who is like you and love them instead of hate them. That was a surprising thing about fatherhood that Nathan had not anticipated.
Her anger became glibness; her anguish became apathy, her anxiety a studied calm.
You’ll never unsee the way it just falls apart in front of you. Everything was its parts; nothing was its sum. People who don’t know the term semantic evacuation sometimes call this feeling depression.
He laughed at that: post-trauma! Anyone who named it that didn’t really understand it. There is no post. There’s only trauma. Over and over. Time moves on, but you stay there forever. No wonder there was no treatment. How do you treat what is now called your life?
