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In Defense of Giving a Damn
Let’s be honest here: at a time like this, feeling is hazardous to one's health.
A working heart can be a liability in these days because its treasure, its beautiful, sacred tenderness is the very thing that leaves it prone to injury. Every false word, every act of violence, every appearance of injustice strikes another vicious blow to its surface. Like a twisting piñata struck in rapid succession, it sustains the damage until it can no longer help but to break open and spill out all the goodness within it.
It is a brutal thing, to be daily emptied in this way.
And so to prevent this, many…
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