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Dr. Joanie Tool's avatar

It always is so fascinating to me how ten people can read the same piece and come away with ten different movies on their minds. For me, that black eye wasn’t from a soccer ball … and the onions weren’t meant to scare off a juvenile offender - rather both involved an abusive partner. All the indignities that happen in the night that we ‘night people’ understand all too well. Her tears at moving to the small protected town as Deputy to her father … an escape from the darkness.

Maybe our sandwich maker understood not to go visit - to keep a ‘loose grip’ on THAT pain.

Thank you for such a beautiful piece.

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Donna McArthur's avatar

The grain of truth in a stereotype. Interesting truth.

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