The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Daddy Issues
What I’m saying is I was a fucking wreck and it’s not my dad’s fault.
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Join NOW!What I’m saying is I was a fucking wreck and it’s not my dad’s fault.
...moreI want to think of him as inhuman and selfish instead of an admirable man who eventually succumbed to a brain chemistry he had no control over.
...moreLong before reaching it, I knew about the end.
...moreWhat were/are you doing in your twenties? If you’re F. Scott Fitzgerald or Zadie Smith, you were publishing groundbreaking novels. If you’re Jack London, you were losing teeth from scurvy in Alaska, which, you know, good for him. See what other famous writers were doing before they hit thirty over at Policy Mic.
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