This girl is very smart, and she is really smart if those descriptions are true and local at the time. Some people don't necessarily know so many things that ordinary kids don't know, even if their parents are on drugs.
In the film, Liz, who is probably eleven or twelve years old, looks at her mother who is being forced into an ambulance (?) and says, "Didn't you see that she is in pain?" Then she recalls the scene when her mother took her down the lawn with her when she was a child. , "She loves me so much, she just doesn't have the ability". Saw a person's notes on growing up today, and she said she understood that her father was just incompetent. But many people should not understand, including me, do not understand themselves. Some people and I used to think that no friends understood us, but we didn't necessarily understand our own words, so why should we expect others? Your parents may not have the ability to achieve your ideal state, and so are your friends, and in fact, why are you not.
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