
Asking for what we need, by Kathryn Nicolai
Meditative Story
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Pretending and Trying to Make Myself Smaller
The chapter is about the narrator's experience at her confirmation ceremony in a small church in Flint, Michigan. Despite not believing in the religion, she goes through with it to avoid causing trouble in her family. She reflects on the pressure to be simple and dependable, and how she internalizes this by pretending and trying to make herself smaller.
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