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What Lies Between Us

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“Denial protected us, screening out certain experiences & feelings until we grew strong enough to relate to them...Yet it also dropped a curtain over our experience, obscuring it, leaving us with a sense of missing pieces. For instance, when we achieved something, we felt like an imposter. Or, though we had a relationship with a significant other, we often felt alone and unrelated to anyone.”

“Karanlık sokaklarım var benim Alvina. Babamı bir sokak başında ölü bulduğum o küçük yaşlarımdan beri çıkamıyorum o karanlık sokaklardan. Sonu yok, çaresizce dolanıyorum. Bir kadın beni sevdi sanmıştım, o sokakları gördüğünde kaçıp gitti işte. Aynı sokaklarda senin de kaybolmandan korkuyorum. Yine de bencilce, karanlığımda dolaşıp aydınlığım olmanı istiyorum...”

“I had not expected the gentle, tentative surge of gratitude I began to feel...for St. Paul's School, the spring, and the early morning. I needed the morning light and the warbling birds. I needed to find a way to live in this place for a moment and get the good of it. I had tried to hold myself apart, and the aloneness proved more terrible than what I had tried to escape.”