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Ideas · 2026-10-02 · 55 min · 9,847 words

Grief and the cost of outsourcing feeling

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Today we start with a story. About a storyteller. Ту декад аго, твеніс. Hanif Abdul Rakib didn't appear destined to become an award winning author. He was an avid reader.

But not interested in writing. He'd spent time on the streets without a home. in jail for petty crimes. But he started writing about the local punk scene and participating in poetry slams in his native Columbus, Ohio. Within a few years.

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