“Unveiling Identity: How Names Bind Us in Kate Lu Sedor’s Captivating Exploration”
But just as often, when people learn I’m a writer, they will ask, “Have you ever read Amy Tan?” I have learned in those moments — when my anger threatens to bubble over, to spill from my lips in the form of renumerating every instance of writerly oppression I’ve ever experienced, including this one — to drop the slight into the wormhole in my mind, larger inside than it is without. Its dark innards contain the black tar of every hurt I want to forget.
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Six letters have marked me for most of my life — and in many ways, they still do, although in different ways.
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