Privately, he thought that a new town could help with Jimmy's family situation, too. He'd never thought highly of either of his parents, and their influence over Jimmy seemed to be growing by the day. And he thought that Angela could do with the change, as well. As for Richard himself, he wasn't attached to Atlantic City or any other place. He saw it very much in the same terms that he viewed people: nothing had a connection with anything else. Even if Jimmy was proving him wrong there, but even so, those connections were ones that people had to forge themselves, they weren't something inherent in the world.
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Privately, he thought that a new town could help with Jimmy's family situation, too. He'd never thought highly of either of his parents, and their influence over Jimmy seemed to be growing by the day. And he thought that Angela could do with the change, as well. As for Richard himself, he wasn't attached to Atlantic City or any other place. He saw it very much in the same terms that he viewed people: nothing had a connection with anything else. Even if Jimmy was proving him wrong there, but even so, those connections were ones that people had to forge themselves, they weren't something inherent in the world.