"Aren't you ever self-critical?" she asked. "I mean, there's absolutely nothing wrong with you, but don't you do it from time to time?"
I shook my head. "No," I said. "Maybe it's a Hastings thing."
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"Aren't you ever self-critical?" she asked. "I mean, there's absolutely nothing wrong with you, but don't you do it from time to time?"
I shook my head. "No," I said. "Maybe it's a Hastings thing."
She hadn't tried to kill herself. Like maybe if she keeps telling herself that, if she keeps repeating the words in her mind, singing them to herself. She'll start to believe them.