Just as Joan had warned, each time a new person spoke, that person felt it necessary to be more emotionally maimed than their predecessors, and to reach deeper into history—theirs personally or that common to humanity—for comparisons to what had happened and how they felt about it. Someone’s uncle had been a hostage in Iran and they now knew precisely how that experience had felt. Another countered that making Iranians, Khomeini, too, into stereotypical Middle Eastern villains, even for the purpose of a post-p36d (the incident’s initials had been lowercased to diminish its power) anecdotal
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