[ To someone as stiff-lipped and self-abnegating as she, the description strikes her as a flair for the dramatics, because to choose such words as cling and sharp rocks and rip is to insist on the severity of one's own suffering. These are emotionally charged words chosen for a purpose, to convince another of her right to suffer, rather than to deny, deny, deny it as one sinks never to resurface. Maybe the admission of pain can be a form of bravery rather than cowardice, maybe to brandish one's wounds for the world to see can be a kind of selflessness, rather than egotism. ]
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So, what will you do now?