Do not pretend it did not also come with a hurt.

And do not, for that reason, give it the best place in the room.

That is a more sophisticated relationship to a disappointing person than most adults I know manage, and she arrived at it in an afternoon, with a wooden box and a question about a shelf, because no one had yet taught her that the only options were to swallow a thing whole or to spit it out.

Chapter 24 — The First Friday