[They've probably heard this before, too. Is there anything he can offer, anything he can say, that isn't exactly what they've heard a million times over? The same fucking words, the same fucking life lessons? You don't have to be this. You don't have to do this. You don't have to give everything away, open-palmed and empty-eyed, until there's nothing of you left. Right?]
But learning not to be that is...hard. You can spend so much of your life just surviving that you can forget how to do anything else.
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[They've probably heard this before, too. Is there anything he can offer, anything he can say, that isn't exactly what they've heard a million times over? The same fucking words, the same fucking life lessons? You don't have to be this. You don't have to do this. You don't have to give everything away, open-palmed and empty-eyed, until there's nothing of you left. Right?]
But learning not to be that is...hard. You can spend so much of your life just surviving that you can forget how to do anything else.