"If you reveal everything, bare every feeling, ask for understanding, you lose something crucial to your sense of yourself. You need to know things that others don't know. It's what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself."
I qualify in a broad range of 20-somethings, in a city that holds a bulging population of like minds. On an unnamable threshold, I continue to mourn the old man and make the conventional mistakes of the inexperienced, the utterly ill prepared.