There is a risk when you are a writer whose main topic is autobiographical of reducing everything that has ever happened to you to a neat and tidy story in service of an idea, a lesson, or more prosaically money. Of capitalizing on every detail, no matter how small, nor how seemingly insignificant at the time. Striving to always make the specific into the general. This is the case now more than ever in an age where hobbies are monetized as hustle and even those who do not manage to squeeze some kind of income out of their personal online presence nevertheless feel pressured to present a presumably honest but never too unsympathetic face to the world.
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