hardcore loser

For Santos, he is the brother she needs, someone who allows her to express her affection through insults and teasing without threatening to leave her for who she is, because they are family.

For Javadi, he is the gossip girlie, a friend her own age that she desperately needs, someone to vent her frustrations to without the pressure to perform beyond her years.

For Ogilvie, he is the confident, mild-mannered teacher, someone with little ego but a lot of life experience he is willing to share. For Amy, he is a man, a protector, a strong shoulder, someone who takes care of her family and performs the physical labor her husband was supposed to do. And then, there's Langdon, who (without perhaps realizing) also has a role in mind he wants Whitaker to play ... and God, it's so bewildering and strange and also incredibly juicy to think that something about Langdon, of all people, wakes in Whitaker the urge to reject, for the first time, a label someone else is trying to put on him, someone that makes him want to be seen for who he is, not for what other people can project on him. And I really, really want to know why that is.

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