“He's detached about your pain, but God knows he takes his own pain more seriously than cancer...There is nothing remotely detached about my father's behavior towards his own pain, in his hemorrhages about anything personal being known about him...It finally dawned on me that my father, for all his protestations and lectures and writing about detachment, is a very, very needy man...”

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Book by  David Shields

Tagged: Life, Pain

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