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Other Is Never a Good Category
Other, the catchall category that combines together every ethnicity other than black and white. It’s the closet you hide all your junk in when you want to do a fast clean up. I hated the word other. It always connoted something that wasn’t a first choice: the other women, the other friend, the other child. I didn’t want to be other.
David Carr’s The Night of the Gun
As I started to read, I discovered that, yes the book was about his epic battle with cocaine and crack, but what I found more interesting was his attention to the fragility of memory. How our memories, even the ones we believe as solid and unbreakable, can be nothing more than our attempts to hide our personal demons propagated with our desires to be someone else, someone better.
You’ve fallen and I can’t stop laughing
I have an admission.
It’s not something I am proud of but, as the old adage goes, “the first step in solving a problem is to admit you have one.”
So here it is…. I laugh when people fall.
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Ly Nguyen - A Writer with a Slanted View.
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