And though I had misgiving–obvious ones, too–one overwhelming thing drove me on: on the borderlands, my father would need me as much as I’d need him. That’s what made me so blindly ready to go off with him. What boy doesn’t wait his whole childhood to walk alongside his father on equal terms?

And though I had misgiving–obvious ones, too–one overwhelming thing drove me on: on the borderlands, my father would need me as much as I’d need him. That’s what made me so blindly ready to go off with him. What boy doesn’t wait his whole childhood to walk alongside his father on equal terms?

– Peter Geye –

Wintering

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