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Hey Luigi, I haven't read the piece about your Dad yet, but I wonder now how it will feel to read it with this insight (yes, some of which you'd alluded to in other places). I think I like to know that backstory, and it *is* hard to tell a story that has multiple layers of truth. I struggle with this stuff too, but I find that ultimately the writing is better when you've really analysed your reasons, as well as the truces you are prepared to make and when. I think the patriarchy and the war and culture and religion etc has damaged a lot of men, and they in turn hurt their sons. As a mother of sons, as a sister, as a daughter, as an ex-partner of a man who'd been hurt by his Dad in ways he still can't unpack.... I see it and experience it too.

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