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“Being near [them] kept me from having to say to myself ‘I am not afraid’ whenever I heard a branch snap in the dark or the wind shook so fiercely it seemed something bad was bound to happen. But I wasn’t out here to keep myself from having to say ‘I am not afraid.’ I’d come [] to stare that fear down, to stare everything down, really— all that I’d done to myself and all that had been done to me.”