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I love you

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It's one thing to think you're worthless, and quite another for somebody else to tell you that you are

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Dad" I pleaded, "this is so [cuss word you never, ever say in front of your mother] ridiculous

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Why are you pretending to write, when I already know you're just doing that to intimidate me?

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If you're putting that energy into performance," he said, "you're also getting it back out again, right? You're giving so you can receive." He spread his arms wide. "If you were writing songs with it, you'd be holed up in your room in the middle of the night, scribbling them in a notebook and feeling self-important. You'd think you were getting it out, but really you'd be keeping it inside and quiet. You'd take what upset you and turn it into art, and now it would fester, because you think other people ought to share your outrage at what happened to you