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    Charlie Engman

    Dec 04, 2018 2 minutes
    Sheila Heti

    What is a grown man supposed to do with his mother? Ignore her. Help her. Visit her dutifully. Keep an emotional and intellectual distance. Bring the grandchildren around to show. Suffer with a plastic smile through Thanksgiving dinners. Keep the thick and invisible wall between grown child and mature parent in its place.

    To do anything else is a———————

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