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The damage suffered by people I know and love is almost always based on the trauma of the only elder they had treating them badly or being interested… - Hilton Als
" "The damage suffered by people I know and love is almost always based on the trauma of the only elder they had treating them badly or being interested only in their silence. And what you’re left with, by the grace of God and some miracle, is this inner self. Our experiences are painful and sometimes annihilating, and if we have the strength to crawl out of and excavate that wreckage, we have to ask ourselves how to describe the truth of it.
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About Hilton Als
Hilton Als (born 1960) is an American writer and theater critic.
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