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vulnerable boy was not my son: he was me. Or rather, he was the version of me I’d never allowed to form, that I’d neglected, blocked out—a version that, even without ever having existed, had defeated me.
It’s strange that maternal anxiety grows with time, that you get worse with the years. I’d have thought the opposite, but how can we bear the distances, the absences, the silences our own children generate?
