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Tom Hanniger ([personal profile] tom_hanniger) wrote 2013-08-14 08:11 pm (UTC)

action;

[OHM NOM NOM FRENCH FRIES IN HIS MOUTH IMMEDIATELY. Chew chew chew, swallow, pause.]

Don't be sorry. [He purses his lips for a moment. It's got nothing to do with her and this isn't going to be The Big Tom Pity Party.]

I think so. Honestly I don't know what else I would have done. Jumped off a bridge, maybe.

[He's kidding with the last bit but, really, he couldn't have stayed in town. Not when they'd all but disowned him. What kind of life would he have had? He'd gone and still turned out twisted. Imagine living in that pressure cooker. He probably would have cracked and killed himself.]

I left home at at 18. It gave me the space to try and figure out who I was. What kind of man I wanted to be.

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