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Leanne Fierstein's avatar

This is shocking, Jim, and sobering. They’re just saying it out in the open. They plan on carrying this out. They’re saying it to desensitize people ahead of time, so when the time comes it won’t be as shocking and fewer will resist. We can’t let this happen. We have to resist.

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Suzanne's avatar

I knew I was feeling grief by the end of January. The anger stage isn’t quite as bad as it was, but I still have to remind myself that joy is a form of resistance before I leave the house. Otherwise, I am libel to snap some innocent’s head off. Others feel the same way, I’m sure, and people are just not nice anymore, especially customer service. (I and four of my friends were asked to leave a restaurant because we asked how much longer we had to wait for a hostess to take our name. The manager said we were rude. We weren’t. I’m 74, and the youngest. One was on a walker and another on a cane, and we were sitting down when he told us to leave. Eight women in front of us were also refused service. Strange times.) I told that story because I although I laugh about its absurdity, it has caused me grief. Something has been lost of kindness and a feeling of belonging and mattering. We don’t matter. I’m looking forward to your series. I realize I am not the only one grieving.

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