5/20/2023 0 Comments Nevada binnie novel![]() ![]() It’s clear that being responsible has not been a positive force in her life. And then she came to New York, paid her rent, had a job, kept her head down, had relationships with people where making the relationship run smoothly was more important than being present in it. She never went to jail, never had the police bring her home, never got caught breaking curfew or went to the hospital or anything. ![]() Even when she was throwing up or incoherent, it was in a controlled situation. Then, with drugs, it’s like, she took them all, but always in such moderation that it wasn’t really dangerous. ![]() That’s when responsibility at the expense of self became a habit: she did not care about school, but she knew her parents would be sad if she didn’t go to college, since certain things are expected from you when you do well on standardized tests, so she scraped by and paid attention. Of course, then they had a weird, sad kid anyway, right? Whatever. When she was little, she was responsible for protecting everybody else from her own shit around her gender-responsible for making sure her parents didn’t have to have a weird kid. ![]()
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