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“I felt like a complete failure, not yet seeing the longer story buried beneath the surface of how I got here.”
“'What’s it like having people thanking you for your service everywhere you go, James?' I asked. 'You might think this is an exaggeration but you asked,' he said. 'It’s an act of violence.'”
"While many people I knew were catching baby fever, I ached for a dog."
“She sat down and paused for a few seconds, and then looked at me earnestly and asked, ‘Will you be there to hold my hand?’”
WHAT'S HAPPENING
“The perils of competition — choppy water, a pile-up on the bike course, hazardous heat — scared me.”
"The same patterns that destabilize families destabilize democracies."
"House Republicans met while most Americans slept ... to hold a vote on the bill that would alter the course of my daughter’s life."
"It’s a form of subjugation that’s insidious and paralyzing."
“The proliferation of this content — and our appetite for it — highlights what I fear is a growing belief.”
"My chest tightened. … I knew that she knew what I had been through.”