So when I was younger, before I got a grip, if I’d heard somebody describing a seriously abusive childhood, a part of me would be thinking, “It can’t really have been that bad.” Because it wasn’t within my own frame of reference, it was very easy for me to dismiss it. For example, I was lucky enough to have a happy childhood, loving parents, a certain amount of dysfunction, but within normal limits. If you’re too lucky, it can be very easy to lack the ability to believe that other people’s lived experience is real, when it doesn’t match up with yours. TANA FRENCH: I’d been thinking a lot about the connection between luck and empathy. ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: This is a story about one man’s luck running out.
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