"The damage suffered by people I know and love is almost always based on the trauma of the only elder they had treating them badly or being interested only in their silence. And what you’re left with, by the grace of God and some miracle, is this inner self. Our experiences are painful and sometimes annihilating, and if we have the strength to crawl out of and excavate that wreckage, we have to ask ourselves how to describe the truth of it."
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On wrestling with the idea of “protecting your elders” in “Hilton Als, The Art of the Essay No. 3” in The Paris Review (Summer 2018)
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