"One of the unforgivable things that my grandfather did to Donald... he severely restricted the range of human emotion that was accessible to him. ...ertain feelings were not allowed: sadness... the impulse to be kind... generous... Those things that my grandfather found superfluous, unmanly... a stupid waste of time... were punished; ruthlessly punished."
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