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Mariana believed that childhood was a reactive experience, meaning that in order to experience empathy for another human being, we must first be shown empathy — by our parents or caregivers.

“Such benign little words — ‘what if.’ But at some point in life, those two words become the scariest two words in the English language.”

I wish I could convince my boss to buy me a sea kayak and pay me to paddle around. Damn.

Swift's description of a Tangier wedding is so well done that I'm smiling at the antics of the attendees because I feel like I'm actually there.

Chapter 10

Maverick has my whole heart. That is all.

The British Land Army is a super fascinating piece of war memorabilia that I was not previously aware of.

Eleanor adjusting to Glen the cat is just spectacular and so so accurate.

“The ‘lost city’ is a recurring trope in Western fantasies, suggesting glamorous undiscovered worlds where Aquaman hangs out with giant seahorses.”

Eleanor describing the mechanics of dancing is everything I never knew I needed.

This Josiah Zayner sounds like an interesting dude.

Okay, do not like Eleanor’s Mom. She is vile.

“Since the 1930s, Louisiana has shrunk by more than two thousand square miles. If Delaware or Rhode Island had lost that much territory, America would have only forty-nine states. Every hour and a half, Louisiana sheds another football field’s worth of land. Every few minutes, it drops a tennis court’s worth.”

"I do exist, don’t I? It often feels as if I’m not here, that I’m a figment of my own imagination."

The reversal of the Chicago River and a massive Asian Carp problem in the Great Lakes Basin and the Mississippi River Basin - an auspicious start.

“A monument tells historians more about who emplaced it than it does the figure memorialized.”

“The military doesn’t practice democracy; the military enforces democracy.”

“As the historian Karen Cox has noted, a Confederate monument had the same purpose as lynching: enforce white supremacy. It is no coincidence that most Confederate monuments went up between 1890 and 1920, the same period that lynching peaked in the South. Lynching and Confederate monuments served to tell African Americans that they were second-class citizens.”

“White southerners continue to focus on a four-year period when they fought a rebellion to create a slave republic and lost badly.”

Actual proof that the Virginia legislature commissioned authors to create textbooks that “not give the impression that slavery was the cause of the war.” Literally right after Truman’s Committee on Civil Rights pushed for the elimination of segregation AND as Brown v. Board of Education was being decided. You don’t say...

“The Lost Cause became a movement, an ideology, a myth, even a civil religion that would unite first the white South and eventually the nation around the meaning of the Civil War. ... The Lost Cause created a flawed memory of the Civil War, a lie that formed the ideological foundation for white supremacy and Jim Crow laws, which used violent terror and de jure segregation to enforce racial control.”

Wow, this Chapter on Football is fascinating.