Bad Boys are not necessarily badly behaved. Bad boys love their moms, in fact they have an unusually strong attachment (Perhaps stemming from a life of together trembling before a dominant, charismatic, yet hurtful dad? Hurt people hurt people. Yet this cycle is not mine to amend. I die trying.). Bad Boys are always proving their worth. They need an audience to reassure them. They take highly visible risks, they spend big. They love to talk and are great storytellers — not conversationalists, storytellers.
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creative non-fiction: ABCDs and the Great Indian Mall
But now, the ABCDs are no longer huts and farms and gray dust (Most of what they know they know from National Geographic and a two-week trip to great-grandmother’s deathbed ten years back.). The great Indian mall is an absolute shock — Indians in silks with swagger and Adidas and Rado watches and haircuts they’d never be bold enough to try.
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