Long Island Compromise
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She remembered a term she learned in a linguistics class for the way a word stops making sense if you stare at it for too long: semantic evacuation.
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People who don’t know the term semantic evacuation sometimes call this feeling depression.
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There has never been, in the history of all human interaction, a way for a woman to explain effectively that she’s calm when a man has suggested she isn’t.
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The anxiety and fear were the only things that were real to him; they were the only things that never abandoned him. And when everyone else got to feel them, too, well, that was when he could finally relax.
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Or, put more simply, in order to be a normal person, you had to at least see normal people.