My friend, Karen, taught a community class a few years ago, and I sat in on it a few times. This is a quote from a middle school kid in the class.
The Managed Heart: Emotional Labor and the Psychological Cost of Ambivalence
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What are you unwilling to feel? This is one of the most brutal, most
clarifying questions in life, answering which requires great courage and
great vulnera...
13 hours ago
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I love this, Nin. And what a delight the young writer was, and all the writers in that class. And having you there.
One fears for a future which no longer has dumb old people like us in it... to frack it up. & c.
(Sorry, meant to say "cheers" not "fears", of course...)
But that part of the world story, the big slow happy ending, would have to be saved for the sequel, no?
Darn.
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