The Third Rail of Emotion

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"It's about paying attention. I'm not even a bear that I'm doing this," he says. "You grow up, you think the right thing, you behave the right way, it's over and so we don't talk about emotion." He continues: "Now you find yourself being aware that emotion of any kind is touching the third rail because it's hard to know what to do with this"

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