“You don’t even get to that point. Because you don’t allow yourself. ’Cause once that’s happened to you..Your father, growing up he’s like Superman to you. He’s everything. So once you feel that sort of hurt, you never allow yourself to get close to that feeling. You don’t even want to feel that good because you know the flip side of that. So you don’t let anyone get that close so they won’t hurt you.”
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