empathy v. sympathy

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I'm soon attending a party that's essentially a high school reunion: a group of people with whom I worked 12-13 years ago. This got me reading old emails. One in particular left me dumbstruck. I wrote this to Jenn, nine years ago to the day.

"I'm so sorry. I cannot imagine anything more painful than someone you love demonstrating in such appalling detail how little regard they have for you."

Yep. My imagination still fails me here. Epically.