Picture the moment when your mom and dad first saw you as something ot…

Chuck Palahniuk
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Picture the moment when your mom and dad first saw you as something other than a pretty, tiny version of them. You as them, but improved. Better educated. Innocent. Then picture when you stopped being their dream. ✨ Chuck Palahniuk (2011). Rant: The Oral History of Buster Casey, p.28, Random House
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Picture the moment when your mom and dad first saw you as something other than a pretty, tiny version of them. You as them, but improved. Better educated. Innocent. Then picture when you stopped being their dream. ✨ Chuck Palahniuk (2011). Rant: The Oral History of Buster Casey, p.28, Random House

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