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I’m gonna go ahead and say that someone has lost her marble!

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Missed opportunity for a catchy/clever title. Doh!

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This is all well and good but, like, where IS the marble?! You never told us the right answer!

Also...what's in the box? WHAT'S IN THE BOX?!

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"Become wrath."

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Empathy is the special sauce of the best fiction ever written. It was a tool that Dickens, Twain, O. Henry, Jack London, Arthur Conan Doyle, H.G. Wells and so many other writers I admire have used with great skill in their work, and they set an example for what I do now.

Some of their books absolutely would not work without empathy set into the narrative- London's "The Call Of The Wild" requires you to be in the position of the canine protagonist, Buck, for the whole time, and London makes it easier by neither sentimentalizing him nor suggesting his life (or ours) will always be easy...

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It's so good in fiction because it's so very important in life! Imagining yourself in the shoes of someone else is something that should be taught in grade school everywhere.

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I wrote a research proposal in college about utilizing meditation to ameliorate deficits in TOM, especially in autistic people

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Noice! Were you a psych major?

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Yea! Psych & History. Theory of mind is one of my special interests. This post actually inspired me to perhaps write an article on here about it! There is so much to be said!

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Fantastic. I can't get enough of this sort of thinking! I will publish lots more psych stuff this year, no doubt. Keep me honest!

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I used to be so terrible at this. Now I’m just bad. Improved though! Reading stuff like this helps. Thanks.

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Henny, I am right there with you. One small step at a time, and bad is way better than I used to be! I might even be approaching "now awful" status!

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Mazel tov!

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Your epidermis is showing! I thought that was the funniest joke in the world in 4th grade. Still do, not sure if that makes me 3 or 5. The joke only worked for a few weeks, right after the body unit.

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Sick burn! I love it.

Side note: I just looked at a DIY yearbook I made at the end of my 5th grade class. Remember "RHTS"?

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nope, do tell!

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RHTS = "Raise Hell This Summer." It was cutesy to sign yearbooks with that during the 80s, I guess. My middle school yearbooks had a bunch of those, and also a few FGTS's - I will let you decrypt that one!

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ha! I went down memory lane for today's post but it was a box of photos from High School that took me there. I bet I have my elementary yearbook somewhere - it was really just a little autograph book - I'll look for acronyms if I ever find it.

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Now we're talking. I've been looking through old pics too! I found some scrapbooks with some images I hadn't seen in 30+ years! Not bad. Also: my folks made a little scrapbook of me from ages 1-5, so I have stuff like me eating ice cream at 2 or whatever, but also markers that help my memory (potentially) like what cars my folks were driving, or possibly where we were living. I'm a "me" detective!

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Memories are so weird! These pics were from 45 years ago when I was 15 and consumed with b&w photography. I saw some pic with nice composition last week and that triggered a whole slew of memories. They got sharper as I looked through the pictures, all kinds of details. Did I say weird? also fun

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