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chapter no. 022!
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❪ 𝚃𝚆 : 𝙼𝙴𝙽𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽𝚂 𝙾𝙵 𝚂𝙴𝚇𝚄𝙰𝙻 𝙰𝚂𝚂𝙰𝚄𝙻𝚃. ❫
❝ IN DENIAL. ❞ ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄
THE CONCEPT OF HAVING A "NORMAL CHILDHOOD" IS ONE CARA VALENTINE NEVER UNDERSTOOD. Human life is sprinkled with conflict, worry, high peaks of happiness, rock-bottom lows, triumphs, disappointments, broken hearts, and unpredictability. So, how can one take the period of one's childhood and reduce it to a notion of normality? What exactly does invoking this concept conceal, and isn't the ideology behind having a normal childhood a wistful, childlike fantasy that we wish were true?
Cara's version of a "normal childhood" was nowhere near the illusion that was painted as reality. Growing up, Ross Valentine kept her as sheltered and safe as he could. Much of her time was spent indoors and playing with their family cat, Blue, who she allegedly named after Ross brought her home and asked her to say the word "cat." However, instead of saying "cat," she responded with her favorite color.
In her defense— she was two years old.
Aside from time spent with Blue, Cara spent a chunk of her childhood watching Ross struggle with a cocaine addiction and attempt to hide the double life he had with the Red Scorpions. A process she tried her hardest to help him with.
Despite he and Hennessy Lu being engaged, they never lived together and she rarely saw Hennessy or Kirk. Her interactions with anyone were limited to herself, Ross, and Michael Le.
