Law in Contemporary Society

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If Only I Were Taller

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 In this messy process, I am beginning to notice the small openings I could occupy. My work with Sanctuary for Families (drafting petitions for Orders of Protection) has given me greater confidence that I am enough to help. I recently applied for the domestic violence prosecution externship to grapple with how the system responds to—and often fails—intimate, cumulative harm. I recognize these are small steps, but they are real, and mine. Navigating law school, I will keep an open mind and attuned senses—to hear what the law overlooks, and to see where it tends to silence. I am giving myself permission to imagine another future. And, someday, in knowing that possibility, I may finally find the courage to choose it.
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The draft is clear and effective, sometimes moving. I think Anita Ford is either given one sentence too few or didn't need to be there at all, and there are one or two other places where a little editorial hard-heartedness should be exercised. But I think the most important route to improvement is to head back into the center of the mystery: Why is freedom a foreign concept when it is also the one you have been seeking all the way along? To resent the world's shaping of the female role for you, to occupy yourself with forms of physical training and discipline designed to make escape possible, to prepare your mind for the need for freedom, to be receptive to the signals in the environment indicating the direction, and then also to be fearful, or—in the usual spasm of high-school exstentialism—sure that people mostly are unsuccessful in resisting the burden of it: how very human, don't you think?

This is, as you see, at the center of law school for you. Your writing is bringing you there, so let the current take you further. You have something immensely valuable to gain from the trip.

 
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