@mariel we gotta stay delusional in these trenches, otherwise what happiness is there T-T

@Kory Misun i bet you she meets garam soon and does the classic love the bf more than her own son

@Xielian 
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tgcf eats

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Gabriel could be a stand in for us--just an expositional tool--or he could represent the seminary education theo recieved in england, his first attempt at attonment through g** (preisthood desires). and in the end when he goes to dinner w/ cedric and speaks to his mother rather than that letter being sent; it shows how cedric is forcing theo to choose him as his attonment, to stay with him. Js like you said, he is obsessed w/ theo, his fiance looks like theo, he won't let theo feel better through anymeans besides himself because though he may veil his obsessions (veiled even to himself) in love, deep down he is a broken child who inherinted a taste for theo.