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Mindfully dealing with emotions is hard and it takes time.

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I talk and talk when I know my
tongue is beginning to fall out.

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When you accidentally brush up against each other while sitting side-by-side. And neither of you inch away to establish your person space, because you can’t stand the absence of each other’s skin.

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I will try my best to make you see all the beauty in you as much as you’re trying to make me see mine.

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A mobilization of activists is almost expected to ensue.

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The center of the bus thundered half in laughter and half in shock at the audacious direction of this conversation.

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In this #MusicForWriters column, the “frenetico” tension and muscularity of the late Swedish composer Allan Pettersson’s powers a new recording of his Symphonies Nos. 4 and 16.

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I want to feel the fiery passion that lit us up for the past year. Yes, the fire was poisonous, and yes it melted away our skin. But at least I felt.