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Could I have found another way to alienate someone that cared about me? Probably. But I like to stick with the classics.
Hundreds of millions of people were still religious, but as more of a cultural affectation. Like folk dancing and pierogies.
Like everyone, she carries around a suitcase of troubles everywhere she goes, but she leaves it unlocked, for anyone to rifle through if they care enough to be curious.
“You’re a very hard person to make your mind up about,” she says. “Yeah,” I say, “I feel that way about me too.”
“I didn’t mean to cause anyone unnecessary pain,” I say. “I don’t think it is unnecessary,” Emma says.
She will become our driving political operator. You might not think a career in academia would prepare her for that, but it turns out that academics are goddamn crazy and getting anything done in the university environment is so convoluted and asinine and theatrical that my mom will find actual politics to be kind of relaxing in comparison.
