Finished my painting

[mobiusstripper]

“When you're a kid, it's hard to tell the innocuous secrets from the ones that will kill you if you keep them.”
― Karen Russell, "Ava Wrestles The Alligator"

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[purglepurglepurgle]

> I'm older now than the author was when she wrote it, and I can tell.

Yeah, that's a weird feeling! Both for the emotional/world-wisdom side and also just the technical side; I remember rereading something and finding the figurative language clunky where it had Just Worked when I was a teen. That was kinda sad.