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<blockquote data-quote="Copabanana" data-source="post: 690639" data-attributes="member: 18958"><p>SWOT, it sounds as if goneboy wanted to re-write his life story, and in a way he did, looking from the outside.</p><p></p><p>He could not cope with the reality that he had been abandoned by his birth parents (let alone whatever the specific circumstances had been--orphanage, or whatever.) He wanted to just ditch the issues of cultural confusion and identity. He bought hook, line and sinker--a pure and simple story of one race, one culture, success, homogeneity, loyalty--and was willing to pay the price. It sounds if he did not have the fortitude to fight to own his own, true story. And because he could not, he was willing to sacrifice everybody.</p><p></p><p>It is really a story of failure, not success.</p><p></p><p>You know, my own son has a story not unlike that of goneboy's. Racial and cultural confusion, abandonment, etc. It makes me feel pride in him that he has not rejected me, one hundred percent--although he did for a while. Sometimes parts of his own story story are too much for him. But he stays in the game. Goneboy just fled. He just could not opt for real.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Copabanana, post: 690639, member: 18958"] SWOT, it sounds as if goneboy wanted to re-write his life story, and in a way he did, looking from the outside. He could not cope with the reality that he had been abandoned by his birth parents (let alone whatever the specific circumstances had been--orphanage, or whatever.) He wanted to just ditch the issues of cultural confusion and identity. He bought hook, line and sinker--a pure and simple story of one race, one culture, success, homogeneity, loyalty--and was willing to pay the price. It sounds if he did not have the fortitude to fight to own his own, true story. And because he could not, he was willing to sacrifice everybody. It is really a story of failure, not success. You know, my own son has a story not unlike that of goneboy's. Racial and cultural confusion, abandonment, etc. It makes me feel pride in him that he has not rejected me, one hundred percent--although he did for a while. Sometimes parts of his own story story are too much for him. But he stays in the game. Goneboy just fled. He just could not opt for real. [/QUOTE]
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