Boys like it when you talk to them as if they were grown men

Russell Banks
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Boys like it when you talk to them as if they were grown men—at least he always did when he was a kid—because they pretend that’s what they are anyhow, grown-up men, and they do it for their entire lives. ✨ Russell Banks (2011). Lost Memory of Skin, p.34, Profile Books
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Boys like it when you talk to them as if they were grown men—at least he always did when he was a kid—because they pretend that’s what they are anyhow, grown-up men, and they do it for their entire lives. ✨ Russell Banks (2011). Lost Memory of Skin, p.34, Profile Books

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