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SarahChanFirstEssay 18 - 26 May 2025 - Main.SarahChan
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| | I have come to understand that freedom is not always a grand rupture. It can be piecemeal and shared. Eben was the first person to point me in the right direction. My research on faculty, course offerings, guest speakers, non-profit organizations, jury consultants, and trauma-informed counselors have lifted parts of the invisible burden I weighed on myself. Sending emails makes me hopeful. Hopeful that through conversations with people who forged their own paths, I too can carve out a meaningful space within the legal field to best address domestic violence and lived trauma. In the remaining two years, may the exit sign steadily grow brighter and lead me toward courage. | |
< < | Now, I will sign off as Eben has each class—with music. My pick is Billy Joel's "Vienna." | > > | Now, I will sign off as Eben had each class—with music. My pick is Billy Joel's "Vienna." | |
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? |
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