[She's already drawing lines through the parallels between them. They're not completely the same, after all. He had a mom. A mom who watched the doctors try and figure out what was wrong with him, tight-lipped and uncertain, unable to even put on a brave face for the squirming child who needed someone to remind him that it's going to be okay.]
[There's a difference - a difference between someone fading from your life over a period of years, and that person simply never being there to begin with.]
Probably. And you've got one too, kid. You were just never told what it was.
I guess I was lucky. They had to write that down on all the forms and stuff when they signed me in. [Even if actually celebrating it was kinda outta the question.]
no subject
[She's already drawing lines through the parallels between them. They're not completely the same, after all. He had a mom. A mom who watched the doctors try and figure out what was wrong with him, tight-lipped and uncertain, unable to even put on a brave face for the squirming child who needed someone to remind him that it's going to be okay.]
[There's a difference - a difference between someone fading from your life over a period of years, and that person simply never being there to begin with.]
Probably. And you've got one too, kid. You were just never told what it was.
I guess I was lucky. They had to write that down on all the forms and stuff when they signed me in. [Even if actually celebrating it was kinda outta the question.]