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You can tell the men whose fathers loved them. Not by what they say, but by how they stand in a room.There is a way of being inside your own body that is impossible to fake, a settledness, an unconscious belief that you have the right to take up the space you are taking up. Some men have it. The ones who got something from their fathers, even something small. A hand on the shoulder. A look across ... Read more

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