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What School Didn’t Teach Us: You Need to Lose Control
The loosening effects of alcohol can allow us to see clearly past our surface differences and disagreements to the common humanity beneath, writes Kat Rosenfield. (Photo illustration by The Free Press)
The kids need to drink alcohol, make friends, and accidentally say ‘I love you.’
By Kat Rosenfield
08.27.24 — Culture and Ideas
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Welcome back to our summer series, “What School Didn’t Teach Us,” where six writers—one for each day this week (except Sunday, that’s Douglas’s day)—tell us the lessons they've learned outside of higher education. Yesterday, Julia Steinberg revealed how toiling on a farm taught her what hard work feels like. Today, Kat Rosenfield describes the joys of a…

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Kat Rosenfield
Culture writer, novelist, and podcaster. On Twitter at @katrosenfield.
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