“You are father-born. You have no mother. The pain you feel is the pain of lack, not the pain of loss. What… — J. M. Coetzee
“You are father-born. You have no mother. The pain you feel is the pain of lack, not the pain of loss. What you hope to regain in my person you have in truth never had.”
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