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by Kiersten White

Sad because of who Almera could have been if his father allowed real medical treatment. And then sad to wonder about it, as though he’s betraying who Almera is, what a wonderful sunshine piece of happiness she is, by wishing she could have been someone else.

This hit somewhere personal for me, having a medically complicated child, wondering what she would have been like if she didn't end up with brain cancer that destroyed the kid she used to be, but also realizing how beautiful of a person she is and not wanting to change that for anything... I had to save this quote.

People pretend things aren’t wrong, even when they can feel the truth, because they’re too afraid of what it means to look right at the horror, right at the wrongness, to face the truth in all its terrible glory. Like little kids, playing hide-and-seek. If they can’t see the monster, it can’t get them. But it can. It always can. And while you aren’t looking, it’s eating everyone around you.