How My High School Teacher Became My Abuser
My English teacher helped me believe in my writing. She also drew me into an inappropriate relationship.
Macbeth
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Boston Review
Dear Joe
ome people have an ability to command the soccer field, arcing graceful kicks across a hundred feet of space. Others have a beautiful singing voice that blends effortlessly with the choir. My superpower is to identify literary talent in young people. And that is what you have—torrents of it.
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Joe Fassler is editor of Light the Dark: Writers on Creativity, Inspiration, and the Artistic Process (Penguin). A two-time finalist for the James Beard Foundation Award in Journalism, he edits The Atlantic's "By Heart" series and is features editor for The New Food Economy.
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