From the minor to the global, a warning that something is not right.
She began to interpret the pandemic as a massive error message, a sign to humanity that it had lost its way, and would now be forced to re-order and reconsider.
Someone who uses Facebook as a thinly-disguised substitute for actual psychotherapy.
Heather's posts centered around her anxieties, her phobias, her delusional self-image - photos of herself taken today, taken ten years ago, taken when she was born - complimenting herself in a variety of ways, and her friends obliged, from empathy, 'liking', 'sharing', telling her how beautiful she still was, knowing she was a Facebook patient.
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As taught in law school: A dog knows the difference between being kicked and being tripped over.
Perhaps the most vital component of trust and forgiveness, the factor of having committed an act inadvertently or willfully.
Although she felt hurt, she waited to respond, needing first to weigh the intentionality of his actions.
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Radical to a ridiculous degree.
Even some young pie-in-the-sky supporters were feeling Bernie's ideas a bit too ridical for mainstream politics.
The echo of a nearly-forgotten culture.
Awakening from a dream, the phrase "Fries with that?" kept playing in his head, like a guitar hook. It must have meant something, long ago, and perhaps it would come to him.
A new 'miracle cure' for Covid-19 which is not a miracle cure.
"Remdeceiver is being touted as a cure", the epidemiologist said, "when it merely shortens the recovery of Covid-19 patients. We need either a cure or a vaccine."
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Currently, the inadvisability of seeking a stranger online.
Her chronic belief that she'd discover a perfect man through the Internet was relegated, for the foreseeable future, to nonline dating.