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Certain stories we carry with us, events in our life, they define who we are. It’s not a matter of getting over anything; we have to make the best of it.

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Nick Flynn

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I had to steel myself against this psychic devastation – to see your father on the street. It’s hard enough to pick up somebody you don’t know from the streets, and then to actually have other people pick your father up – it was psychically devastating.

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My father had always identified himself as a writer to my mother when they met. When they met, he was writing this great novel, there was no doubt about it. Part of why she left him was this delusion of greatness and identifying it very directly with being an artist.

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May 19, 2024

My father had always identified himself as a writer to my mother when they met. When they met, he was writing this great novel, there was no doubt about it. Part of why she left him was this delusion of greatness and identifying it very directly with being an artist.

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May 19, 2024

I had to steel myself against this psychic devastation – to see your father on the street. It’s hard enough to pick up somebody you don’t know from the streets, and then to actually have other people pick your father up – it was psychically devastating.

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