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" I was so happy when I found out the wounds you’d inflicted weren’t serious, that you had stopped.”

“Yes, I stopped. Barry, all of you, see what I did as this suicide attempt. But I didn’t want to die. I only wanted my mom to hear me. To come find me. To see that I was sad. To help me, I guess. I just didn’t have it in me to tell her what I needed. And fine, I get now that she couldn’t read my mind.”

He wiped his eyes again.

“But I didn’t get it then. I’m so mad at myself. What was wrong with me that I couldn’t just tell her? That I didn’t have the capacity to ask her for anything. "

Anne Eliot , Unmaking Hunter Kennedy


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Anne  Eliot quote : I was so happy when I found out the wounds you’d inflicted weren’t serious, that you had stopped.” <br /><br />“Yes, I stopped. Barry, all of you, see what I did as this suicide attempt. But I didn’t want to die. I only wanted my mom to hear me. To come find me. To see that I was sad. To help me, I guess. I just didn’t have it in me to tell her what I needed. And fine, I get now that she couldn’t read my mind.” <br /><br />He wiped his eyes again. <br /><br />“But I didn’t get it then. I’m so mad at myself. What was wrong with me that I couldn’t just tell her? That I didn’t have the capacity to ask her for anything.