As a young adult, I have already made a number of trips between those two places. When I visit, around me there are crumbling castles; I walk the path between them, a potholed road. When I first read Ms. Sontag’s words, I envisioned visits to this kingdom as solitary ventures. After all, isn’t it ultimately you alone in the doctor’s office, or in the pharmacy line, or in your thoughts? An uncertainty about my career morphed into a misshapen terror that my life was worth little or nothing.

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Persons: Susan Sontag, ”, you’re