I'm glad you remember being as stubborn as that, too! Apparently when I was in kindergarten, I suddenly decided I wasn't going to go to school anymore, and my mother had to regale me with dire threats to make me go again.
Re: the normal life--that really struck me too, getting into his mindset and realizing that he probably never thought he'd condemn them to a whole life lived like that. One year grew into the next, and the next, and suddenly they're adults.
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As always, you get what I'm getting at. :-)
I'm glad you remember being as stubborn as that, too! Apparently when I was in kindergarten, I suddenly decided I wasn't going to go to school anymore, and my mother had to regale me with dire threats to make me go again.
Re: the normal life--that really struck me too, getting into his mindset and realizing that he probably never thought he'd condemn them to a whole life lived like that. One year grew into the next, and the next, and suddenly they're adults.
Thanks for a great comment, my friend. :-)