ajdreyer

He doesn’t talk about his problems because words to problems are like water to those toy dinosaurs that grow when they get wet, and he has no room in his heart for giant toy dinosaurs.

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She has an inner monologue about who she is and what life is like, and when the details begin to stray, she recites it to herself and anyone who will listen to wrestle the details back into place. If this fails, she searches the dictionary for new words to describe the changes, and says them over and over to get used to the sound.

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