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Scared Isn't A Good Excuse. Scared Is The Excuse Everyone Has Always Used.

To Find Margo Roth Spiegelman, You Must Become Margo Roth Spiegelman. And I Had Done Many Of The Things She Might Have Done: I Had Engineered A Most Unlikely Prom Coupling. I Had Quieted The Hounds Of Caste Warfare. I Had Come To Feel Comfortable Inside The Rat-infested Haunted House Where She Did Her Best Thinking. I Had Seen. I Had Listened. But I Could Not Yet Become The Wounded Person.

Failing To Grapple With Complexity Actually Turns Out To Be A Pretty Bad Life Strategy.

And Then Something Invisible Snapped Insider Her, And That Which Had Come Together Commenced To Fall Apart.

They Were Angry, I Thought. Horrified. These Teenagers, With Their Hormones, Making Out Beneath A Video Broadcasting The Shattered Voice Of A Former Father.