“And so I started thinking about how maybe everything I ever hated about Holden is everything I ever hated about myself, and how maybe the only reason I get so angry with him every time he breaks down and cries is because when I was his age and I hadn’t yet been so thoroughly desensitized by the steady torrent of disappointments of life that I, too, I could still cry back then, and even though now I know all the cues and I know when I’m supposed to no matter how much I try I just can’t bring myself to do it, to do this, the most primal of human urges, the very first thing I did when I entered this world and yet the last thing I seem capable of doing today.”
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Matt Langer on you-know-what.
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