Bebe Nicholson
May 29, 2022

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This is such a well-written essay. It reminds me of something I read yesterday in the novel, The Beekeeper of Aleppo. A man has just escaped from the devastating war in Syria and is a foreign refugee who lost his son in the violence. He is on the street when someone shoves a camera into his face and snaps a picture. The man panics, because his first thought is that someone has shoved a gun into his face. All his trauma led to such a terrible response, but of course the person taking the picture doesn't know what a terrible violation he has committed.

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Bebe Nicholson
Bebe Nicholson

Written by Bebe Nicholson

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