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    Don't Apologize for Feeling Sorry!

    Posted Thursday, August 07, 2008 7:24 PM | By Melinda Henneberger
    Wait a minute; don't you apologize, Meghan, for extending too much sympathy, even if it is to Clark Rockefeller! Because one of our most serious problems has got to be a general deficit of sympathy, especially for the undeserving. You know how in Eat, Pray, Love the author's Italian buddy Luca Spaghetti says every place on earth has a guiding principle that can be summed up in one word, and Rome's word is sex? I think Elizabeth Gilbert says power is New York's word. Anyway, I am sorry to conclude that in this country we're all so obsessed with who does and does not deserve all kinds of things—love, death, forgiveness, and, above all, help from the government—that resentment seems to be America's word. So, if you threw away your sympathy on somebody who's really rotten, my word for you is brava.
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