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Writer Jonathan Franzen Says ‘Love,’ Don’t Just ‘Like’

May 29, 2011 by PaulM Posted in Culture Leave a Comment

In today’s NYTimes, writer Jonathan Franzen advises graduates at Kenyon College and all of us to be brave enough to go past “like” to the “love” setting on our emotional temperature control setting. Read the essay here, and get the NYT if you want more of this kind of writing.

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