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Narrative as emotional avoidance

The author’s realization that she *used stories to avoid feeling* highlights how the impulse to reframe trauma can, paradoxically, prevent true engagement with the pain it represents.

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The Literary Agent Who Lost the Narrative Thread

As a literary agent, I’ve spent years shaping the stories of other people’s grief. There was the Pulitzer-nominated journalist who’d lost her only child when he was seven. And the Black descendent of Thomas Jefferson who, upon her father’s death,

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