But they're your parents," Malcolm said to him once a year or so. "You can't just stop talking to them." But you could, and you did: he was proof of that. It was like any relationship, he feltΓ’β¬βit took constant pruning, and dedication, and vigilance, and if neither party wanted to make the effort, why wouldn't it wither?
β Hanya Yanagihara
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