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The Power of Narrative: How Stories Help Us Process Our Most Difficult Realities

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The Power of Narrative: How Stories Help Us Process Our Most Difficult Realities
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In the summer of 2023, I chanced on a headline that made my ears ring: only nine comfort women survivors remained in Korea. “Comfort women” refers to the hundreds of thousands of girls and women across Asia forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese military in the 1930s and 1940s. And in my birth country, they were down to nine. Nine is a number I can count on my fingers. Nine grandmothers, all in their nineties, staring down death without justice as a far-right Japanese government denies their

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