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guns strapped to their chests until they
agreed to release young girls who’d
committed no crime other than to be
female and victims of rape. After many
years on the job, he went home and
wrote down what he’d witnessed, in
books and articles that bristled with
rage. He didn’t write in the style of a
sensitive person, and he made a lot of
people angry. But he wrote like a person
who cares, desperately.
I thought that Walker Creek Ranch
would make me long for a world of the
highly sensitive, a world in which
everyone speaks softly and no one carries
a big stick. But instead it reinforced
my deeper yearning for balance. This
balance, I think, is what Elaine Aron
would say is our natural state of being,
at least in Indo-European cultures like
ours, which she observes have long
been divided into “warrior kings” and
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