I really liked "Dear Evan Hansen" and I too had read the plot on Wikipedia and was braced for the teenage-outcast and suicide and lying, but the feelings of parental inadequacy snuck in there and hit me hard.
"I knew I'd come up short a million different ways. And I did, and I do, and I will."
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"I knew I'd come up short a million different ways. And I did, and I do, and I will."