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At my boyfriend s recent high
school alumni gathering, it came to light that he had bullied a student (holding his head in the toilet, etc.). We ve been together for almost two years and have discussed marriage. However, I m truly unsettled that he was capable of committing such awful acts. It makes me feel that I no longer truly know who he is. He claims he s an entirely different person and could never do such a thing today. How much weight should I give this? Pixy.org Disturbed Comforting sayings like The meek will inherit the earth (as in, Someday, you ll be Elon Musk! ) are of little comfort while the meek are being given swirlies in the girls bathroom.
Our personalities are not set in stone. They are more like sand dunes.
By Olga Khazan
Ms. Khazan is a staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of “Weird: The Power of Being an Outsider in an Insider World.”
April 6, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET
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When the pandemic lockdowns began, Catherine Steffel, a medical physicist and science writer in Madison, Wis., noticed that her daily routine didn’t change very much. It unsettled her that her regular life so closely resembled quarantine.
Then, in January, her 29-year-old husband died suddenly from an aggressive form of cancer. Her husband loved to sail and fly airplanes, but Dr. Steffel had always been more cautious and work-oriented. In honor of his memory, she decided to embrace his zeal for living.
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If there is one thing we have learned, it is that we must take care of each other. This has always been true for our LGBTQIA+ community. Our history is a stark reminder of caring for those that society deems “less than” during times of medical crisis. Every decision we make has a reverberating impac