"Reflecting back on my childhood, I know it wasn't functional. I was very unconditionally loved and accepted, I felt, by my father."

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Nobody wants to see the truth. Everybody wants to have the fantasy. When I look back at the books I was reading in my childhood were selling some sort of fantasy as well. Most stories are not going to tell the deep suffering of every day. No book prepared me for the suffering I would experience in life because the word "suffering" does not even describe what the suffering is. No story is going to tell you that, and no words can tell you that.

— Signe Baumane