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Hello Prof Dalke,

I know for my life telling my stories in therapy, etc., have been helpful for releasing past hurts, etc., and I have learned that there is a place and a time to tell them.  This reminds me of a story I wrote last Fall semester that hit on some personal issues...and then I felt as though I could not write for months later. Was this helpful? I can see now that it was though the timing was a bit off. And it may just be that a text that one find's very hard to digest is reassuring for another. I used to obsessively read books on concentration camps when I was a child/teen.  The more detail, the better. And, though these stories I read were horrible...they taught me of courage and bravery and many other concepts that I needed to learn.

Just a thought.

Meredith