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161. Sentiment

The Allusionist

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My Response to My Mother's Death

Part of my interest in sentimentality was realizing the role that it played in my own process of responding to my mother's illness and then death. Once you have turned a person into a sentimental trope, they're not a person any more. They're not complex and messy. And somebody whom i had sreaming fights with and disagreed with about stuff now there they're just an idea about what a mother becomes.

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