Jiang says years of meditating on Diane Webber let Harold Rubin integrate desire, memory, and self-acceptance so completely that the fantasy becomes part of his own identity.
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Self Acceptance
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "So it's like Harold is having a conversation with each of these people. Okay? His imagination is creating a person in front of him..."
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"So it's like Harold is having a conversation with each of these people. Okay? His imagination is creating a person in front of him..."
"...which Victorian moralists had defined as self -abuse, but rather through self -acceptance, his understanding that naturalness of his desires, and asserting his right..."
"When we receive him completely, this creates a union which allows us to understand ourselves and understand the universe. Okay? So this is exactly..."
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Jiang begins with Gay Talese the master reporter and ends with Gay Talese the man who learns to stare back at shame.
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