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Stereotyping
Pair with Girls And Boys by Blur
“I hate when you do this,” he says and points to the tears running down his face.
She looks at him without a word. She is used to his emotional outbursts and knows it can backfire if she reacts. More than anything, he objects to being handled, and she can’t afford to upset him. She needs him. And the tears are just a passing shower in the finely tuned weather system of his brilliant mind. He will come around.
“So you want me to take over the Williams account?” he asks as he searches his pockets for a tissue.
Regitze Ladekarl has re-emerged as a raconteur after a long, successful career elsewhere. She crafts universal tales from everyday life with an honest and witty pen. Besides working on her next book, she sharpens her voice with personal essays, flash fiction, and method writing here on Medium.
