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“I couldn't decide what kind of person she was, whether she was one of those insects that look exactly like wasps but aren't . . . I just wanted to know if she would sting.”

Metaphor Sympathy Olivia Sudjic

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“In the last week I felt her withdrawing. What was once everywhere, an ocean I imagined myself to be drowning in, was now barely deep enough to bathe in. I saw her warmth draining away and I couldn't stop it.”

Metaphor Sympathy Withdrawing Olivia Sudjic

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Source: Sympathy

“I was on the sidewalk, buffering, wondering if it was okay to follow people in real life.”

Metaphor Social Media Sympathy Olivia Sudjic Internet Age

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Source: Sympathy

“I'm going to have to get an entirely new social scene if I want to avoid him,' she said, hunting for evidence of him amongst her friends' feeds. I made a sympathetic face, but my heart leapt up onto her, beat its fists on her heart, yelled, Me Me Me!”

Heart Longing Metaphor Sympathy Olivia Sudjic

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Source: Sympathy

“I saw a doctor. I went in case there were any remnants of the summer inside me—sticky, slender fish bones that needed to be scraped into the bin. He was dismissive of my concerns and said my body would have let me know by now. Did I have what was known as female intuition? I said I'd had my feminine intuition somewhat scrambled in the past.”

Doctors Metaphor Sympathy Olivia Sudjic Women S Health Feminine Intuition

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Source: Sympathy