She had an unwavering sense of what she believed to be right and just. She didn’t back down from a fight. She was fearless and unapologetic and never questioned herself. I didn’t realize the corollary of this. Someone who was staunchly unapologetic would, ultimately, never apologize. If someone always saw themselves as just and right, they would struggle to see where other people were coming from. If they never second-guessed themselves, they would never acknowledge that they’d made a single mistake. It seems obvious now, an old cliché playing out: that the best things about her were also the
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