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    When it’s time to feed Lenora, Shiv takes her into the bedroom, lays the baby down right in the middle of the California king. She looks very small, but significant, like the dot of a capital in the midst of an expansive nation on a map.

    Shiv Roy, and her first year of motherhood.

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    16 May 2024

  2. Public Bookmark 85

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    “How long have you been here?” She asks eventually.

    “I don’t think he knew, right?” Roman ignores the question and it makes her feel as if she is intruding on a missed conversation coming to its natural conclusion. “Like—he didn’t fucking know. No.”

    “Uhm—Rome?” She reaches for him; it’s all she can ever do. “What do you mean?”

    “He didn’t,” he says as if it were decided.

    “Roman,” Shiv whispers, downright scared.

    But her brother just lightly shakes his head, his breath sounding off. Shaky. Broken. Something broke a long time ago and nobody remembers who tipped the glass. Shiv can’t remember.

    Over the span of several years after the Waystar sale, the Roy siblings keep crossing paths. May it be birthdays, a memorial or other events, life finds a way to force them into each other's orbit. All of them try to live with the decisions they've made and have to face the final, hauntig question of whether their father can ever truly leave.

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    05 May 2024

  3. Public Bookmark 3

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    A little glimpse into the traumatic upbringing of Shiv and Tom's child.

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    02 May 2024

  4. Public Bookmark 19

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    But now that Miri knows that people go away, forever, she can’t stop thinking about it. It’s like when she got that train set for Christmas and the track was a circle. When she and her father finished setting it up all the train did was go around and around and around, to nowhere, until you got bored and turned off the motor. Miri’s brain feels like that train set, only without the switch.

    meditations on childhood mental illness.

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    23 Jan 2024