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Why is it that two sisters often divide the world between them in this way? Exaggerate their strengths and their defects to make a perfect division between realms? A sort of primal, unspoken noncompete clause?
Don’t look at that man riding a motorcycle. Look at that man shoveling the snow who just gave you the gift of a snow scraper for your car, which was the very first present my now husband gave me when he was only my roommate. Sexy-cozy! The opposite of dirty-sexy!
meditate on the idea that we are all already broken, and in being broken, already whole.
The ungentle don’t tend to notice and praise the gentleness of others.
But don’t we need to cross over? Is this not a moral imperative for art, but also for social discourse? Don’t we need to imagine people different from ourselves, people whose experiences we can only imagine?
