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Daddy Issues—RRC

I’m 10 years old and I’m on my way outside to play basketball. My dad motions for me to sit down. “You’re getting older. You’re going to start getting curious about your body. That’s OK. Just don’t do it at the dinner table.”

He crushes out his cigarette in the heavy glass ashtray. “Do what I do. Do it in the shower.”

I was 10. That’s when I stopped taking showers.