[The pool of people who they know understand - what it is to be someone like them - it's not a very large pool at all. Does she know that? Does she know how few people they know, that they really know, that they trust to be able to look at the choices they have made and never pin them with dark and terrible stares and cold judgment and jokes about how they could have tried harder?]
[Is that their fault, for not ever saying it?]
Not a lot of people who understand what it's like. Being us.
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[The pool of people who they know understand - what it is to be someone like them - it's not a very large pool at all. Does she know that? Does she know how few people they know, that they really know, that they trust to be able to look at the choices they have made and never pin them with dark and terrible stares and cold judgment and jokes about how they could have tried harder?]
[Is that their fault, for not ever saying it?]
Not a lot of people who understand what it's like. Being us.