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“Just that I knew that if I wanted to get away from my family, if I wanted to be able to take care of myself, I’d need to work at it. There’s no use fighting the person who’s trying to teach you, whether it’s your boss at Woolworth telling you how to put things on shelves or some skinny WASP telling you how to serve a tennis ball.”
That’s the thing about walls. They don’t tend to appear for no good reason; they’re either closing something off or holding something up, and you can’t just wish them away.
It’s really only then that Andy realizes what he’s asking for. He’s asking for his father to be a father. And it feels like the biggest favor he’s ever asked of anyone. He nearly apologizes, nearly explains that he doesn’t make a habit of asking for things, that he hates being a bother. But he thinks his father just figured that out.
