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The Yale Review | Nuar Alsadir: "We Are Our Choices"

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A psychoanalyst and poet on the consequences of being severed from your "True Self."

The Yale Review | Nuar Alsadir: "We Are Our Choices" Essays We Are Our Choices The consequences of being severed from your True Self Nuar Alsadir PenErik, Doublement, 2014, via Creative Commons A COUPLE OF YEARS OUT OF COLLEGE , I was at a bar on Seventh Street in the East Village in New York with my boyfriend at the time, a novelist who carried a small notebook with him that he would suddenly take out of his pocket and write in during conversations. We were breaking up, although that didn’t become clear until an extremely drunk woman stumbled over to our table and asked, What does arbitrary m

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