He brushed my forehead, and said that sometimes people want to find someone to blame because the insides of their bodies feel like prisons. Is that why you go away and write to catch your thoughts, I asked, so they don’t drag you away? Yes, sort of, he said. You know how sometimes you get so many worries about things changing, or you have thoughts that feel a bit crazy that no one will understand? I nodded. It’s important to find somewhere to put all of the upset, he said, so you don’t become like that poor woman and take it out on the wrong people. It was strange to realise sometimes things
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