Sarah Weinman: The line about how you aren’t sure you want the trauma not to happen because it gives you your career is….something that I will be thinking about probably forever

This is great. Especially this sentence: “You survive what happened to you, then you survive your survival, and then the gift you’re given is that you fall in love with your whole life, inextricable from the bad thing that happened to you.” www.nytimes.com/2024/07/07/m...

The Kidnapping I Can’t Escapewww.nytimes.com Fifty years ago, my father’s friend was taken at gunpoint on Long Island. Then he went on with his life — and that’s the part that haunts me.

The line about how you aren’t sure you want the trauma not to happen because it gives you your career is….something that I will be thinking about probably forever

For real

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