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“Like every other woman in the world who has ever been told to calm down, Rachel had no idea how to behave.”

― Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Fleishman Is in Trouble

It was all such an insult, the Hamptons. It was an insult to economic disparity. It was an insult to leading a good life and asking hard questions about what one should sacrifice in the name of decency. It was an insult to having enough—to knowing that there was such a thing as enough. Inside those houses weren’t altruistic, good people whom fortun

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We are all Frankenstein monsters—patchwork quilts of past experiences—trying to pass ourselves off as whole and cohesive things.