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Pity Party
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14 Pity Party Invite the woman who lost her husband in the flickering hands of flame. And the man whose arm was chewed up by a jaw of shrapnel. And the colonel whose son strapped himself to the ceiling fan and took a breezy leap of faith. And the father who croons lullabies for his five-year-old as buckshot spackles the window pane. Have each prepare a few words about suffering, but make sure each ends by testifying that my woes put their woes in perspective, that my woes are, in fact, the measuring stick. ...