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54 Plenty of things can make you annoyed—being cut off by a truck whose bumper sticker reads, keep honking, i'm reloading. Grapes with seeds in them. But anger is different. Frost crystalling the veins. Not a movement of the soul, but the soul failing to move you—to empathy, or at least patience. While the soul hibernates, the rest of the body does weird things with itself. It mixes warm milk and brandy. Or it wears socks that look like gloves. Or it gets irrationally furious when the young man at the gym can’t find your membership. Neither this young man with his thick hands nor even the girl on your usual treadmill has done anything wrong.You’re just cold. on being cold ...

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