" At ten, I’d been confused by their lack of approval. At thirteen, I’d been hurt. At sixteen I’d been furious. And at twenty, resigned. These days, I liked to think I saw them more clearly than they saw me. But the truth was it was infuriatingly easy for them to get in my head sometimes. To hear my mother’s voice as I looked at myself in the mirror, or my father’s silence as I searched for a dissenting opinion. "
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