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Stephen King’s recent novel contains the following excerpt:
“Is he okay?” Tim asked keeping his voice low.
“He’s dehydrated, and he’s hungry, hasn’t had much to eat in quite awhile, but otherwise he seems fine to me. Kids his age bounce back from worse. … He’s hiding something. Maybe a lot.”
“Okay.”
The novel seems to be about systemic child abuse. The boy in the book is only 12, but systemic abuse can happen to older people too, “elder abuse” and all. Authorities always seem to think what they are doing is morally correct, but how does anyone really know that? Whether it is doctors, police, judges, or even just parents. Life is complicated.