Maybe I lacked coping skills. Maybe I was weak. I cared for people for no better reason than they seemed to care for me, acknowledge me. It didn’t seem so dangerous at the time.
Mark Slouka (2014). “Brewster: A Novel”, p.61, W. W. Norton & Company
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