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ISBN13: 9798192096093
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 392
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 392
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
I have come to feel bad for young women who are exceptionally pretty, because I always think of Mae. It's been years since I saw her. We were nineteen years old and stood together on a canyon bridge in bright morning sunshine. She was at her most beautiful, with her hair shiny and black, glinting in the new morning light.
Seth was there too, of course.
It was a place the three of us had come to in the third grade, and it was the last place I saw her.
This is how I choose to remember Mae... ...I will never know how bad it was growing up for Seth and Mae. They lived just up the hill from me, and only a few streets from each other, but they may as well have lived on another planet-I just never knew. What I do know is for whatever reason, some people rise above their home of abuse, while others use their affliction as fuel to harm. It is something to wonder about, why one kid suffers through a father's relentless violence to become a counselor, while a boy with a self-involved mother grows up looking to hurt others. ...Some say it is silly to have regret, that regret is counterproductive.
Like it's a choice.
It's my experience that if you walk this earth for any period of time, you will make mistakes. I for one, regret my mistakes. Not mistakes like putting bleach into a load of colored clothes or forgetting someone's name. I'm talking about large mistakes, where maybe someone was hurt, or someone could have been helped.
I had an opportunity that night with Mae and I missed it. Yes, I was young, and not able to fully understand what was happening to Mae, and how awful that time was for her. But sometimes I wonder if I was allowed to see it, her coming out of Mr. Hanson's pool house, and the swing, because I was meant to do something about it. That I was meant to step in and help Mae.
But I didn't.
If someone would like to tell me I shouldn't regret this, they're stupid. And they never knew Mae. Bird. Sky. explores a young man's reckoning of his childhood, his broken family, and the friends he thought he knew well. As he discovers the true depth of his friends' daily torments, he struggles with the regret it brings--wondering how he could have missed what was truly going on, behind the veiled, sunny affluence of their privileged San Diego neighborhood.
It was a place the three of us had come to in the third grade, and it was the last place I saw her.
This is how I choose to remember Mae... ...I will never know how bad it was growing up for Seth and Mae. They lived just up the hill from me, and only a few streets from each other, but they may as well have lived on another planet-I just never knew. What I do know is for whatever reason, some people rise above their home of abuse, while others use their affliction as fuel to harm. It is something to wonder about, why one kid suffers through a father's relentless violence to become a counselor, while a boy with a self-involved mother grows up looking to hurt others. ...Some say it is silly to have regret, that regret is counterproductive.
Like it's a choice.
It's my experience that if you walk this earth for any period of time, you will make mistakes. I for one, regret my mistakes. Not mistakes like putting bleach into a load of colored clothes or forgetting someone's name. I'm talking about large mistakes, where maybe someone was hurt, or someone could have been helped.
I had an opportunity that night with Mae and I missed it. Yes, I was young, and not able to fully understand what was happening to Mae, and how awful that time was for her. But sometimes I wonder if I was allowed to see it, her coming out of Mr. Hanson's pool house, and the swing, because I was meant to do something about it. That I was meant to step in and help Mae.
But I didn't.
If someone would like to tell me I shouldn't regret this, they're stupid. And they never knew Mae. Bird. Sky. explores a young man's reckoning of his childhood, his broken family, and the friends he thought he knew well. As he discovers the true depth of his friends' daily torments, he struggles with the regret it brings--wondering how he could have missed what was truly going on, behind the veiled, sunny affluence of their privileged San Diego neighborhood.
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