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Haunted

is a word that denotes an unresolved parallel

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We cease to be haunted when we cease to be afraid of making what has been untouchable real and touchable again: especially our understandings of the past, and especially those we wronged

We feel haunted when we do not attend to what is rightfully ours, when we waste our energies and powers on peripheries. This essay was written in a kind of symmetry betw…

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