Education in Empathy Big Gay Wedding Lunch with a Socialist
Education in Empathy Big Gay Wedding Lunch with a Socialist
Education in Empathy Big Gay Wedding Lunch with a Socialist
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IT’S A FRIDAY AFTERNOON, and you’ve just<br />
gotten out of your 10 a.m. class. Shak<strong>in</strong>g your<br />
head, you walk towards Java Wally’s to wake<br />
up out of the mid-morn<strong>in</strong>g haze. You see sev-<br />
eral young men pass<strong>in</strong>g out newspapers and<br />
convers<strong>in</strong>g outside of the library. You motion<br />
to your friend to go the other way, but it’s too<br />
late. You’ve made eye contact, and you are<br />
headed right towards them. Smil<strong>in</strong>g at your<br />
shoes and pretend<strong>in</strong>g to be greatly engaged <strong>in</strong><br />
your conversation about the explosive ability of<br />
Drano, you avoid the <strong>in</strong>teraction and walk on.<br />
EDUCATION IN EMPATHY<br />
BY MICHAEL CONTI | ILLUSTRATION BY JOANNA EBERTS<br />
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