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After the worst thing happened to you, you weren’t afraid of bad things happening anymore.
“Sometimes the happiest people on the outside are the saddest ones on the inside,”
That was the part about death that nobody discussed—how incredibly disorienting it was.
Men didn’t have the same burden, so how could he know? How could I expect him to understand? No man really could. They got points just for sticking around and not leaving. Their bar for parenthood was set so low, you could step over it. Ours was impossible to reach, and there was no way to win no matter what you did.
