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There are a lot of lonely kids in this world, but the problem is that they don't know about each other. If the lonely kids could just team up, a lot of good things would happen, but the world is incredibly afraid of lonely people teaming up, and so it does its best to keep them apart.Matthew Quick
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Then we talked a lot about our parents and how we didn't want to become them, but we had no other role models--or "maps, " Alex kept saying. "My father is a terrible map, mostly because he doesn't ever lead me anywhere." And I thought about my parents being maps that led to places I didn't want to go-- and it made a shocking amount of sense, using the word maps to describe parents. If almost made you feel like you could fold Mom and Dad up and lock them away in the glove compartment of your car and just joyride for the rest of your life maybe.Matthew Quick
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It felt like so many years' worth of anxiety and worry were trying to escape all at once–maybe like an emotional volcano, only my mom and dad, they didn't run away to save themselves but sprinted right into my lava.Matthew Quick
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I knew that I had reached the end of childhood once I realized that adults in my life didn't know anymore than I did.Matthew Quick
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It felt like so many years' worth of anxiety and worry were trying to escape all at once–maybe like an emotional volcano, only my mom and dad, they didn't run away to save themselves but sprinted right into my lava. They both jumped up off the couch and wrapped their arms around me even though it meant touching each other. We stayed like that for a long time, and it felt good–almost enough to justify everything that had precipitated it, but not quite.Matthew Quick