While Thomas kept a clear focus on his “life goals,” the future he wanted, he had utterly disregarded his history. He had turned his back on the past he no longer wished to be a part of. The problem with his strategy of disowning pain was that his feelings did not cooperate very well. David Ingles turned his back on the depressed, vulnerable boy inside himself, only to wind up replaying the scene of his injury with his own son. Thomas, in one of those many dark moments by his mother’s bedside, had no doubt made a vow never to subject his future family to anything like his own experience. But
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