Word: enjoyable
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Vanessa needn't be so clever anymore. In the past 18 months, she has cut herself only once. She was pleased and surprised to find that she didn't enjoy...
...most people--and especially most parents--the idea that anyone would tolerate the sting of a razor blade or the cut of a knife, much less enjoy it, is unthinkable. But maybe they are just not paying attention. Vanessa is not a member of some remote fringe of the emotionally disabled but part of a growing population of boys and girls for whom cutting, burning or otherwise self-injuring is becoming a common--if mystifying--way of managing emotional pain...
...Stir in Crispy Rice, or Rice Krispies, or cereal of choice; Cool and enjoy...
Holden’s fascination with language extends to foreign tongues as well, and he makes an effort to enjoy poems in their original form. He is especially interested in Russian literature, a preference he credits to a class he took his first year at Harvard...
...adopts a semi-sarcastic tone of voice while talking about these efforts, so as to avoid sentimentality, but his words are passionate. “I started doing my stuff for kids purely because it was fun, because I had my own kids, and because I do enjoy it. But as I began to do more and more of it, it sort of pleased me that I was going at it with a sort of missionary zeal,” he says, reveling in the grandiose nature of the last two words...