Growing up, you have all these gaps in knowledge. And yet don't know what you don't know. And you don't yet understand that the world does not revolve around you. So essentially, all kids are unreliable narrators, aren't they? 
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 If you say, "It's not the heat, it's the humidity," it's because you're from some other sunny place where you thought it was hot. It's both the heat and humidity. It's okay. You'll survive. There are ways to get along. 
 But for every adult person you look up to in life, there is trailing behind them an invisible chain gang of ghosts, all of which, as a child, you are generously spared from meeting...The lost loves, the hurt friends, the dead: they follow their owner forever. Perhaps this is why we feel so crowded around those people who we know have had hard times. Perhaps this is why we find so little to say. We suffer from an odd brand of stage fright, I think, before all those dreadful eyes. 
 Parents have that special skill of making the truth, no matter how benign, an embarrassing thing. 
 Is there ever a love, any love, made of answers? 
 Once the trust is gone, you know, all of history changes.