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DEGREES OF SEPARATION

I have a very low threshold for sentimentality. This has never made much sense to me, given my love for Shakespeare’s sonnets, Irish drama and Charlotte Brontë. Then again, I also love British drama, Russian literature and Chris Rock, all of which collectively cancel out any schmaltziness anywhere else. Why muddy up a fact with overblown emotion? Why bury the lede?

All that has made me very uneasy as I look

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