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Something About Men and Women

SOMETHING ABOUT MEN & WOMEN The news analyst explained the shooting: It was a black and white one-child marriage with empty days and nights He went to California seeking work but returned with nothing to a wife with a boyfriend who had nerve, perhaps her love, for sure a gun The husband with nothing was angry There was one shot The eminent psychologist discussed her recent book about men They must learn to eschew violence and to cry out like women when sad she said But the recent widow watching alone among the remnants of her life just looked at the screen knowing that often when women are sad they do not cry and that, so often, when men do violence what they do is crying

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