Becoming a Man

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In Siberia, you become a man when you learn to capture and control reindeer. Or so TV says.

What did I do to pass from being a boy to a man?

What did you do?

Was there ever one single moment where you thought that this is where you leave the kid behind? That you are no longer what you were? Known Some Call Is Air Am?¹

As far as I can remember, I never had that specific jolt where I thought I would no longer be a kid.

To be very frank, I don't even remember what being a kid was like. I remember being a kid; I remember a few things I did when I was a kid. I don't remember what it felt like to be there.

Do you?

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¹I am not what I used to be. - Johnny Truant, House of Leaves.