tendency to trivialize things like injuries and illnesses, especially when it feels as though somebody is overreacting. I don’t see things as all that serious unless I know they are. I never do. I had my finger snapped into an odd angle wrestling in Belarus years later and just kind of looked at it as if a lie were being told to me by my hand. My daughter, Alex, had a respiratory virus at six weeks old and had to go to the hospital for two days, which I guess makes it pretty serious, but the whole time I was like, whatever. She can’t blow her nose so she needs some snot sucked out, so what? I
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