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The Grief of Not Being Fully Yourself in Another Language
There is so much of me that you can’t see because I don’t always have the words. This morning at the gym, a man took weights from the machine I was clearly using. If you go to the gym, you know there is a basic etiquette: don’t take weights from someone else’s machine, put your own weights away, throw away your used tissues. None of this should need explaining. When I protested in French, he waved me off. But I persisted. Eventually, he put the weights back. When I finished,

cgoubault22
Sep 135 min read
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