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The Selfish Giant
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The Selfish Giant

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Damon revisits key moments in his life in an attempt to reconcile the demons of his past.
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I keep coming back to where everything slipped. The first time Damon realized he’d lost the plot, he was standing in a bathroom with someone else’s blood on his hands, screaming into a phone receiver and looking at the version of his friend he thought was dead. He remembered the way the blue tile l
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