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When you are in school, your talents are without number, and your promise is boundless...But at a certain point, you begin to feel your talents dropping away, like feathers from a molting bird.

Sarah Shun-lien Bynum

This was the feeling that Ms. Hempel couldn't shake: a conviction that she spent her days among people at the age when they are most purely themselves. How could she not be depleted when she came home, having been exposed for hours, without protection, to all those thrumming radiant selves? Here they were, just old enough to have discovered their souls, but not yet dulled by the ordinary act of survival, not yet practiced in dissembling.

Sarah Shun-lien Bynum

Sarah Shun-lien Bynum

Sarah Shun-lien Bynum

Born: 1972 (age 52)

Bio: Sarah Shun-lien Bynum is an American writer.

Known for:

Madeleine is Sleeping (2004)
Ms. Hempel Chronicles (2008)
Tin House: Fantastic Women (2007)

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