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Personal Essays
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We make sense of violent events by choosing to deny that they happened—or by blaming the victim. This is true even if the victim is yourself.
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― A Woman, a Plan, an Outline of a Man
― A Woman, a Plan, an Outline of a Man
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Over time I began to recognize the possibilities for transformation. I saw another kind of acceptance as being viable, the kind espoused by Robert Frost when he said "Take what is given, and make it over your own way." That is, after all, the root meaning of the verb "to accept," which comes from the Latin accipere, or "take to oneself." It implies an embrace. Not a giving up but a welcoming. People encourage the sick to resist, to fight back [...b]ut it wasn't possible to resist [...]. I began
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