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I wept like a child. it was not because i was overcome at having survived my ordeal, though i was. nor was it the presence of my brothers and sisters, though that too was very moving. i was weeping because ....fill in the blank with whatever/whoever helped you survive... had left me so unceremoniously.

-Yann Martel

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Yann Martel

I wept like a child. it was not because i was overcome at having survived my ordeal, though i was. nor was it the presence of my brothers and sisters, though that too was very moving. i was weeping because ....fill in the blank with whatever/whoever helped you survive... had left me so unceremoniously.

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Last night i wept. i wept because the process by which i have become woman was painful. i wept because i was no longer a child with a child's blind faith. i wept because my eyes were opened to reality....i wept because i could not believe anymore and i love to believe. i can still love passionately without believing. that means i love humanly. i wept because i have lost my pain and i am not yet accustomed to its absence.

Grandmother pointed out my brother perry, my sister sarah, and my sister eliza, who stood in the group. i had never seen my brother nor my sisters before; and, though i had sometimes heard of them, and felt a curious interest in them, i really did not understand what they were to me, or i to them. we were brothers and sisters, but what of that? why should they be attached to me, or i to them? brothers and sisters were by blood; but slavery had made us strangers. i heard the words brother and sisters, and knew they must mean something; but slavery had robbed these terms of their true meaning.

I wept in my dreams. i dreamed you lay in the grave; i awoke, and the tears still poured down my cheeks. i wept in my dreams, i dreamed you had left me; i awoke and i went on weeping long and bitterly. i wept in my dreams, i dreamed you were still kind to me; i awoke, and still the flow of my tears streams on.

Brothers and sisters, our democracy has been hijacked. brothers and sisters, all electoral freedoms in this country are over so long as it's controlled by corporations. brothers and sisters, we are not going to allow these streets to be taken over by the democrats or the republicans. because it's all of us who have built this city, and we can tear it down unless they give us what we need.

I never heard weeping like that before or after; not from a child, nor a man wounded in the palm, nor a tortured man, nor a girl dragged off to slavery from a taken city. if you heard the woman you most hate in the world weep so, you would go to comfort her. you would fight your way through fire and spears to reach her. and i knew who wept, and what had been done to her, and who had done it.

No sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy, no church, no clergy, no army, no diplomatic service, no country gentlemen, no palaces, no castles, nor manors, nor old country-houses, nor parsonages, nor thatched cottages nor ivied ruins no cathedrals, nor abbeys, nor little norman churches no great universities nor public schools -- no oxford, nor eton, nor harrow no literature, no novels, no museums, no pictures, no political society, no sporting class -- no epsom nor ascot some such list as that might be drawn up of the absent things in american life.

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