Oh Christ, he groaned to himself, if this is the stuff adults have to think about I never want to grow up
To this day, being able to __ake advantage_ of someone is the measure in my mind of having a parent. For me and Lindsay, the fear of imposing stalked our minds, infecting even the food we ate. We recognized instinctively that many of the people we depended on weren__ supposed to play that role in our lives, so much so that it was one of the first things Lindsay thought of when she learned of Papaw__ death. We were conditioned to feel that we couldn__ really depend on people__hat, even as children, asking someone for a meal or for help with a broken-down automobile was a luxury that we shouldn__ indulge in too much lest we fully tap the reservoir of goodwill serving as a safety valve in our lives.
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
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To this day, being able to __ake advantage_ of someone is the measure in my mind of having a parent. For me and Lindsay, the fear of imposing stalked our minds, infecting even the food we ate. We recognized instinctively that many of the people we depended on weren__ supposed to play that role in our lives, so much so that it was one of the first things Lindsay thought of when she learned of Papaw__ death. We were conditioned to feel that we couldn__ really depend on people__hat, even as children, asking someone for a meal or for help with a broken-down automobile was a luxury that we shouldn__ indulge in too much lest we fully tap the reservoir of goodwill serving as a safety valve in our lives.
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