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Laughter: the best medicine for dark times? (opens the original)
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It was 2016 and some reality show dunce was running for President. I was on the phone with my friend, Henry Oster, and he said to me, verbatim: “These are the same kinds of things I heard as a kid.”You see, Henry was the last living Holocaust survivor from Köln, Germany, where he’d been abducted by the Gestapo at the age of 13. He spent three years in three concentration camps, including Auschwitz, and lost both of his parents along the way. Though his survival was unlikely, he was freed in 1945
A Very Potter Disappointment (opens the original)
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I’ve been away from Substack for awhile, due to a major surgery, but y’all must’ve known I’d be back as soon as I heard Rupert Grint is going the way of Tom Felton and reprising a role he supposedly concluded fifteen years ago.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Bv05!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_pr
Where I've Been: A Post-Op Horror Story (opens the original)
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I’ve been thinking about Joan Tronto a lot lately. Her theory of an ethics of care insists that we attend to the stark reality that everyone needs care at some point in our lives. We come into the world helpless, requiring care, and this is also often how we leave the world. But that inbetween space, wherein the majority of us are capable adults, is wrought with a proud declaration that we are individuals who don’t need anything from anyone. “You got this!” everyone will say, instead of offering
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