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Life was never going to be what she wanted it to be, and she'd decided to pragmatically lower her bar in a way that would have horrified her teenage self.
How could you grow people inside your own body, sprout them from your own extant materials, and suddenly be unable to recognize them?
She'd given up so much and so little when she agreed to marry him, but he has been so fixated on having her that he had rarely stopped to consider what it would mean for her to allow herself to be had.
Nobody's ever prepared to care for a child full-time, is what I mean. Nobody understands what that means until they do it for themselves. We're all just holding our breath and hoping nothing catastrophic happens. And how deeply you get hurt doing that! It's constant pain. It's a parade of complete and utter agony, all the time, forever.
But that was the thing: sometimes being a sister meant knowing the right thing to do and still not doing it because winning was more important.
He's sorry. He's embarrassed. He's hungry. The Catholic trifecta. You've taught him well.
You're ethereal. My intangible everything.
The thing that nobody warned you about adulthood was the number of decisions you'd have to make, the number of times you'd have to depend on an unreliable gut to point you in the right direction, the number times you'd still feel like an eight-year-old, waiting for your parents to step in and save you from peril.
I wish I could take it all away from you sweet thing. Her mom said simply. It was a strange sentence. Darkly poetic. One that with a subtle shift in vocal inflection could have been a curse instead of a sweet proclamation of motherly selflessness.
It's funny," her mom continued. "I think so much of making a relationship work has to do with choosing to be kind even when you may not feel like it. It sounds like the most obvious thing in the world but it's much easier said than done, don't you think?
And he realized, then, how silly it seemed that you could ever know another person - really know her - and how silly it was to think that he had any idea what it was like to be her, day after day.
Normalcy: it bore a second look, sociologically speaking.
And it was striking, how much less alone that could make you feel, because of course to be peopled at all was a high-order gift, but to find people beyond your people was nothing short of miraculous, finding a person away from home who felt like home and shifted, subsequently, the very notion of home, widening its borders.
This is the problem with you," she said finally. "You're so nice until you're not. And then you're the biggest asshole on the planet.
He felt the heat blasting from the vents of the Jeep and he gave a lot of grateful thought to the fact that he was finally in a comfortable enough place to fall asleep, not driving a stolen car and not sleeping in said stolen car in a copse of trees in twelve-degree weather; not in an unfamiliar bed that smelled like someone else; not in the series of try-hard cots in the Interim Room at Lathrop House but instead in the soft bucket seat of a Jeep that smelled like someone he knew; homeward bound, God what a queer thing to say but he hardly had the wherewithal to correct himself, so heavy were his eyelids, his head full of newfound knowledge, his belly full of egg rolls, and he didn't even notice falling asleep; he just drifted off, Wendy to his left, because he knew, somehow, that she'd get them home.