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kindness

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  • Brandon Hicks
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Random Acts of Viral Celebrity Kindness

  • Brandon Hicks
  • September 16, 2018
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Mixed Feelings: How Do You Break a Heart?

  • Mandy Len Catron
  • December 7, 2017
What should love cost us? What do we owe one another? What, especially, do we owe those who have chosen to love and trust us?
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The Girl with the Hair in Her Mouth

  • Casey Dayan
  • April 25, 2014
“What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness: those moments when another human being was there in front of me, suffering, and I responded sensibly. Reservedly. Mildly,”…
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  • Rick Moody
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The Rumpus Interview with Quest for Kindness

  • Rick Moody
  • October 21, 2010
Quest for Kindness seemed, to me, like career suicide, but in a warm and self-sacrificing way.
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The Rumpus Original Combo: Paul Yoon’s Once the Shore

  • Grace Talusan and Stacey Swann
  • March 23, 2009
“One time I was reading Haruki Murakami and I thought: if I had the chance, would I ever ask him why his characters always vanish? I’m not sure I’d want…
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The Rumpus Interview with Paul Yoon

  • Stacey Swann
  • March 1, 2009
One time I was reading Haruki Murakami and I thought: if I had the chance, would I ever ask him why his characters always vanish? I’m not sure I’d want to. Maybe he doesn’t know either.
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