I never used to cry.
In fact, I wondered about it when I was younger: have I embedded an invisible emotional fortress? Neville Wran once attracted headlines in Australia when, as Premier of NSW, he declared of his birth suburb:
“Balmain boys don’t cry.”
That got me thinking – is this a gender thing? Am I ‘normal’ or am I protecting the formative elements of my identity – dark secrets protected by my terror of revelation…
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