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Once it’s Done, Forever

written 14 Jul 2008 while the school buses headed home

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There was an as-usual-touching episode of This American Life rerun this week in the podcast. It dealt with a girl who had been extremely close with her grandmother as a child, until one day, becoming a snide teenager simultaneously beginning to understand the grander concepts of life and relationship all the while still wet enough in the feet as to be unable to understand their consequences, made some remarks to her grandmother about their relationship with each other and the other people in their family. It hurt the grandmother very badly, partially because the things said were, unintentionally, cruel but likely for all of the other complicated reasons one might expect from any sort of human interaction.

Which had me thinking over life in general, Read the rest of this entry »

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