Things I hate: when I'm writing and I hit a sentence like "he'd never wanted to to begin with."

Correct, but unattractive and annoying. >:0

maybe put at all instead of to begin with?

it avoids the to to situation

idk if it works in context but

Triktriktrik : Sadly, no. >:I

dang

I hate having to write duplicate words like that, but sometimes I can't rephrase

emet-sleep : I had to just cut the entire part out because there was no way to rephrase it and I'm stubborn /face in hands

/patpat