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Part I

Cole

Age eight

There’s freedom in chaos

When my father used to say that, I didn’t understand it much Ironically, that piece of infor around like a fact

My father is a businessman There shouldn’t have been any room for chaos in his life, and yet, he thrived on it

He knew that humans are chaotic by nature and that nature comes before nurture

That’s what the books say I didn’t understand the, I returned a new person

One day, I was co home withturned black

Masks were shoved over our heads, and then ere separated I re the colour black It’s about breathing your own air and thinking you’ll suffocate on it It’s about freezing until you can’t feel your toes or your face

The darkness isn’t just a sensation It’s a phase of being

That’s what the therapist Mu

Were you afraid, son?