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“All this talking, this rather liquid confessing, was something I didn’t think I could ever bring myself to do. It seemed foolhardy to me, like an uncooked egg deciding to to come out of its shell: there would be a risk of spreading out too far, turning into a formless puddle.”

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source: The Edible Woman (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1999), 112.

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“Nothing is sacred anymore, even the sacred. And even that most secret ritual of the Roman Catholic faith, the veiled black confessional box.
        Once funeral homes began live-streaming funerals, it was probably inevitable. But now confessions are not only about touching the soul, but touching the screen.”

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source: “Forgive Me, Father, for I Have Linked,” The New York Times, February 8, 2011.

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medium: Op-Ed

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