in lovers? The big things, yes, like outright cruelty or violence, but what about the subtler dangers? For instance, the risk of choosing someone who never really knows you, but knows only the version of you they have created in their own head. Later on, Hanna will learn to divide people into two groups based on their understanding of others. First, there are the people with no particular agenda, who will take their cue from you, who will wait quietly to learn who you are. Then there is the other group, the people who will not wait, but who conjure up a personality for you out of odds and ends
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