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...really be gay since, in a pre-interview with my parents, my dad had at one point interrupted my mom—thus proving that he wasn’t the weak, submissive father that a homosexual ought to have. Adult gays usually lived shallow, unfulfilling, empty lives??but if I wanted, he said, I could change. I tried to argue, but as a middle-schooler I was no match for a licensed psychologist three times my age. Riding home in the car, I couldn’t control my sobs. My parents, who had been misled about...
...family was crucial in keeping him grounded. “I hung out with my brother [Victor] because we had been through it all together”, he says. “He was very important for me, because we were really the only constants in our lives??. Although Victor tried to immerse himself totally in American culture, Edgar made a conscious effort to retain and display his Sierra Leonian heritage—by keeping his distinctive accent, for example, and playing soccer instead of basketball. Keeping in touch with his father was more difficult...
...idea of Long, and others like her, sitting up at night and wondering “what could go so wrong in a person’s life that he or she would be compelled to destroy thousands of innocent lives?? should not be understood as kindness or sympathy on the part of peaceful individuals, but the deepest and most horrible sanction that any victim can give an attacker. What Long calls the “narrowness” of retaliation is actually a commendable refusal on the part of most Americans to wait for the next...
...Never, ever, block with someone out of pity. Refusing to block with a despicable person may result in hurt feelings. Pretending to enjoy living with a despicable person will destroy lives??both of them...