Many of these songs are extremely cheesy, most of them are from the 90s and early aughts, and I love all of them as if they were my dear, sometimes embarrassing children.
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Occasionally, now, I’ll hear the bouncing of a basketball or, at night, the bass of a boombox. Mostly I hear the sirens en route to the hospital further down the block.
I spend a lot of time reminding myself that I’m in my body. I can’t afford to be unkind to myself. I enact affirmation, over and over. Yes, I value this body. Yes, I want to protect it.
There’s a tension in him, an internal struggle both mythic (his lineage) and literal (his reluctance to leave home). Luke must constantly work to identify and choose the side of good.