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A helpful trick can be to picture feminine words (pumpkin latte, duvet cover) as butterflies. Soft, delicate, hard to catch, and useless except near flowers. Masculine words are more like knives.
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I started thinking about additional, more slantwise ways we might talk about his legacy. What if I organized a bunch of guitar players?
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She was a physical, as opposed to a media, reality to me—someone with a voice to be addressed rather than a flattened image.
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