The actor and the ironing board: An unlikely lesson in improvisation
by Owen Thomas
Feb 26, 2024
3 minutes
No one succeeded in persuading my teenage self that I’d come to see things differently. Every generation, I now realize, shakes its head knowingly at the rising one, having been the object of such head-shaking itself. Some early life events – breakups, bad grades, unfortunate wardrobe choices – seem to need time to settle into perspective. “You’ll see,” say clueless adults. We disagree – until we catch ourselves saying exactly that
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