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  • Fear connects more effectively than love

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    When I get together with a group of people, the thing that connects us most is fear, not love. Each of our life experiences has led us to develop differing perspectives and opinions about what love is. The love I feel for my family (storgé) is different from my friend who grew up with abusive…

  • Flickering Lights

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    I’m sitting at my workbench in the spare bedroom, eyeing the stack of papers that’s in front of me. I’ve been procrastinating on writing this report all winter break. I am terrified that within this stack of papers is a dissertation that may have rendered my research redundant. What’s worse, this work was published in…