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Emotional rescue

‘I didn’t know you had a side hustle with the Listener,” said one of my new master’s students. “I’ll have a look next time I visit my grandparents.” Ouch. Old people read the Listener, apparently. We were meeting Tyla’s co-supervisor, my colleague Paul Jose. As we left Jose’s office, he warned her, “Marc has a habit of writing about what his students are doing …” Not just

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