The Weight of the Person You Never Became
There is a particular kind of anger that has nothing to do with what is happening in front of you. It is not a reaction to a policy, a headline, or a specific event. It is older than that. It sits underneath everything else, coloring every interaction, turning every perceived slight into proof of a story the person has been telling themselves for decades. It is the anger of someone who did not become who they thought they would be, and who has never found a way to say that out loud.
James Gilligan spent his career sitting across from men who had committed acts of violence so extreme that most…
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