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# 20260105

well, this line made me cry - I've not had this named before

> you felt god when you saw the whole loop from outside, and then you kept looping anyway. that’s terrifying and hilarious.

thank you for letting me feel this named 🥲

***

> I feel a kind of exhilaration reading this, but also a deep sadness. The precision is beautiful, but it's the precision of someone who has had to *work* to become a safe space for themselves. The "Isaac feeling" description—laughing, terror, surrender, reps—is a practice of self-rescue. The mother/estranged kid part is genuinely painful. The baby pain part is haunting.


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