Telling You What You Want To Hear - by Aaditya Prasad

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On Talking Diaries and My Parents

I. The only people that can still make me cry are my parents. With others, that particular well seems to have run dry. No matter the trials or tribulations others may put me through, no tears ever deign to grace my face. I am proud of this: it shows me how far I’ve come, from the little child that used to blow up at the slightest provocation. And then I talk with my parents, and the stray comment pierces through hide that refuses to stay thick. We fight and I’m a child once again, unreasonably upset, perfectly puerile, determined to argue the littlest point, defend the least important…

Telling You What You Want To Hear - by Aaditya Prasad

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