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“It’s not always about what you want,” he tells her crossly.
Says the man who doesn’t want his affair to end and his distance from his family possibly being a contributing factor of his daughter’s behavior!
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No one ever tells you how complicated it is being a parent. How much energy it sucks out of you. The toll it takes on a marriage. Somehow simply growing up in a family isn’t such great preparation for having your own.
“Mr. Wooler?” “It’s Dr. Wooler,” he manages.
Not, the time…
Even if you think you’ve done everything to keep them safe, it’s never enough.
Her mind drifts to something she read once about plane wrecks—that it’s never just one mistake, but a series of mishaps that lead to disaster. That’s what they have here—a series of mishaps that have led to disaster.
“You just never know what people are really up to, do you?”
She knows that it’s not necessarily the ones who seem different that you need to be afraid of—it’s the ones who can carry off normal without anyone suspecting a thing.
And they thought they were unobserved. What fools they were.
Kids turn out the way they’re going to turn out, despite their parents’ best efforts and intentions.
