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   Letter to His Father

   Franz Kafka

   “It is, after all, not necessary to fly right into the middle of the sun, but it is necessary to crawl to a clean little spot on earth where the sun sometimes shines and one can warm oneself a little.”

   Kafka’s letter to his emotionally abusive father—if you’ve shared life with a narcissist, or endured an abusive parent, this is a remarkably resonant read:

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