• tigeruppercut
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    2 months ago

    When I was 13 I thought “You go Holden! Tell off all those phonies!” At 18 I thought “This whiny asshole won’t stfu.” Then as an adult I realized “Oh, poor kid was dealing with a lot of unaddressed trauma.”

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      Then as an adult I realized “Oh, poor kid was dealing with a lot of unaddressed trauma.”

      I hadn’t thought of that angel before. That’s actually a really good way to look it.