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a complaint against More Will Be Revealed

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If this is a sample of the “More Will Be Revealed,” I hereby lodge a complaint. Some things seem better left submerged.

Context

The recovering man's resistance to his own recovery, half-joking and entirely sincere: told by the program that More Will Be Revealed, Ewell gets the buried third-grade perfidy back in a night-sweat dream and wants to file a grievance. It is the honest counter-testimony the doctrine rarely hears — that the excavation of the past is not always felt as healing, that surrender includes being handed things you would much rather have left down in the dark.

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