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Luxury and the gifted do not always sit comfortably together. We are intense. We are obsessive. Our work ethic can make us dismissive of others. Especially others whose casual ease with luxury can seem a moral insult. Yet by denying ourselves the same ease we also deny ourselves some access to love and perhaps to […]

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The man had long labored under an injustice. For thirty years he’d been held responsible for an act of destruction that had actually resulted from an accidental oversight of his sister’s. Now the fault was to be remedied . . . “It was thirty years ago,” he said. “Surely you can tell Mom the truth […]

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