You’re responding to someone who said “we”. People are allowed to speak to their own situations in whatever way they choose. You’re not helping with this behavior.

The deeper meaning was that Carroll wanted to spend more time obsessing over a little girl that he painted nude portraits of.

Heidi is one of the books that I remember being the most latched onto. Part of it was because there was the Shirley Temple movie I watched so often, but the book was special to me on its own. I honestly don’t remember the slightest bit about either of them except for the settings and the sleepwalking (something I also suffered from), but the impression is still there.

I happened upon an old copy in a local Little Library. I’m afraid to try to read it for its condition, but it’s one of very few physical books I care about holding onto.

Your direct manager in a distribution center is still just a workhorse like you to them, they’re not actually on a different level in the way that corporate leaders are.

Hardcovers aren’t very practical to me. Paperbacks barely are, honestly. But I only buy books to read and move on, not to display.