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transcribing dreams 1I was at a beach, I don’t knowwhy the dream was there, but it was, the dream I mean. And you were there, and your family too, and at one point your little sister, the one that isn’t so little anymore, pulled me to the side and told me she was pregnant. She loved her boyfriend, she couldn’t have an abortion, she didn’t want to tell her parents. And she told me, and I didn’t know what to do. Later in the dream, still at the beach, she told you, and your parents, and you were screaming that you were going to kill her boyfriend, and your mother was babbling what would the neighbors think and your father was speechless. And I know that all of you were hurting her more, that what she needed most was supportive words, someone to hold her. Didn’t you think she was scared enough, I wanted to ask. But I didn’t, I watched all of you do this to her, the poor little girl. How scared she must have been
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