Let the Whole Thundering World Come Home by Natalie Goldberg

Author:Natalie Goldberg
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Shambhala
Published: 2018-06-04T16:00:00+00:00

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It took me years to coax small details of Yu-kwan’s past out of her. She didn’t want people to feel sorry for her — or even worse, for them to feel sad, listening to her story.

One day she said to me, “I will tell you one thing, but you must never tell anyone.” Then she fell silent.

My imagination went wild in her long moment of hesitation. She killed someone. She has another lover.

“What? What?”

“I had to take a GED exam,” she whispered. “I never graduated high school.”

“That’s the big secret?”

“My stepfather came to visit the boarding school in my senior year. There was a used condom in the parking lot. He freaked when he saw it and pulled me out of school. He was very possessive.”

“Didn’t you protest when he took you out of school?” I asked.

“No use. All my childhood I was dragged one place or another, with no consent.” She shrugged her shoulders.

“Yeah, but you found a power against him when you said no to running. Did you miss it?”

For a second time she shrugged. “It was a terrible choice I had to make, a self-inflicted internal wound. That day I realized I’d lost passion for things, and almost immediately I started losing time running when I went back to school. I no longer broke records. There was a psychological shift.”

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