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“At the intersection of Iranian-ness and Midwestern-ness was pathological politeness, an immobilizing compulsively to avoid causing distress in anyone else. You bit your tongue, then bit it a little harder.”

“His life had been a steady procession of him passionately loving what other people merely liked, and struggling, mostly failing, to translate to anyone else how and why everything mattered so much.”