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"content": "\u003cp>Few things are more painful than watching people we love harm themselves. Most parents go through some iteration of this experience when their children become teenagers, but some families suffer more than others. One mom in Berkeley, Donna, found herself caught in a high-stakes game of cat-and-mouse with her daughter, Cindy, starting in middle school. (To protect the family, we’ve changed the names.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When did the trouble start? The stories differ, depending on how you define trouble.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout alignright\">\n\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http://u.s.kqed.net/2015/09/14/LITDApodcastlogo.jpg\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/love-in-the-digital-age/id1037051180?mt=2\">Subscribe in iTunes\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Don’t miss an episode of ‘Love in the Digital Age’\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Donna recalls the moment she spotted the first sext on her daughter’s phone, while driving with her two girls in the car. Cindy was 13 at the time, and her younger sister was in the back seat, so Donna didn’t say anything out loud, at first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I looked over. My daughter was in the front seat. She was holding her phone. You know, she kind of scrolled through. But well, my first thought was: Why is there a male torso on my child’s phone? And then I thought to myself: Oh gosh, it’s, you know, this is happening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘My first thought was: Why is there a male torso on my child’s phone? And then I thought to myself: Oh gosh, it’s, you know, this is happening.’\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>That’s just the sexting. “I would see sometimes text conversations,” Donna says, “between her and someone I didn’t know, and I assume, actually, that she didn’t know. If I could ever really see the whole gist of a conversation, I would gather that the person on the other side was a boy or man, who eventually would lead the discussion to something sexual, and then it seemed like she would kind of stop.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What Donna Ultimately Realized Was Happening\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I really wanted attention,” Cindy says. At that time, she adds, “I didn’t really care how people thought of me. Like, I’m going to text this guy a million times until he stops replying, and then I’ll find the next one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cindy was an anxious kid, and a year into middle school, she found herself socially excluded by a group she calls the Abercrombie Girls, in reference to their focus on fashion. Cindy describes it as a “Mean Girls” situation. “I was always at the edge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8_POt2KlfQ]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Cindy sought out boys, and men, consciously aware they were interested in sex, regardless of what she told her mom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s so easy, you know?” Cindy says. “Snap the picture and send it. It takes nothing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cindy is hardly an anomaly. Sexting is a common practice among teenagers, and grownups everywhere are struggling to catch up. Some law enforcement agencies treat sexting an under-age girl as a criminal offense, but if the sexter is a teenage boy, that can come off as \u003ca href=\"http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p031fztz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">heavy-handed\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donna warned her daughters about the fact that photos are forever on the Internet, but Cindy was favoring the bad information she got from girlfriends, who told her guys were unlikely to forward her photos if she had sexual photos of them: a kind of mutually assured destruction pact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That turned out to be a naive assumption. But even after Cindy knew better, even after she had been publicly embarrassed, she kept sexting. Even after one of the older guys she was chatting with threatened to come find her, she kept looking for new, strange friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Parental Surveillance\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donna never really stalked her daughter. She openly checked Cindy’s phone once a week in middle school. But Cindy was much more careful about what she shared with her mom, regularly deleting incriminating evidence that could get her grounded or, at the very least, forced to endure a lecture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cindy wasn’t a big fan of social media, but Donna checked the feeds of her daughter’s Facebook friends nonetheless, looking for clues about her daughter’s life that Cindy wasn’t choosing to share with her. Donna also installed \u003ca href=\"http://www1.k9webprotection.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">K9 Web Protection\u003c/a>, filtering software that blocks sites and then emits a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyCXUuUKLxE&feature=youtu.be&t=6m23s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">loud dog bark\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cutting was the first clue that Cindy’s anxiety and depression were overwhelming her. Cindy fell in with a couple of girls at school who were also suffering from depression. They were also cutting themselves, and cutting themselves competitively with each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cindy described her first scars as evidence of an encounter with a cat. That excuse worked only once, and her tolerance grew over time, so she needed to cut more often “to get the same relief.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They look like what they are: razor cuts,” says Donna. “So they’re very thin, and precise — but they can get a little deep. I know, it’s horrible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon after the cutting began, Donna lined up a therapist, but Cindy didn’t take to the woman. She was formal, the kind of therapist who likes to review her notes at the end of a session — with a 13-year-old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It wasn’t more damaging,” Cindy says now, “but it just wasn’t helpful — and that was a critical time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All this was before high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Listen to more of Cindy’s reflections on middle school:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/223991953”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Berkeley High School\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately, high school didn’t go as well as we had hoped for her,” Donna says. “She started out strong her freshman year, but by her sophomore year, she had gotten again with a group that was kind of fringe — not exactly motivated in school, and they were smoking a lot of pot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s so easy to find,” Cindy says. “Everyone had this unlimited supply. I almost always got it for free in the beginning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By sophomore year, Cindy was smoking, by her own estimate, eight or nine “blunts” a day — and then drinking on top of that. There was also a one-month flirtation with cocaine, but that wasn’t her main drug.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite all this, Cindy was still getting A’s and B’s in school. She was taking care of business. “I was the only kid who went to class of the friends that I was with, ’cause I knew that If I started getting bad grades, my parents would notice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are kids who are very combative with their parents,” Donna says. “They’re ‘I hate you, Mom,’ and they’re fighting. We were never like that. She would tug at my heartstrings, versus push me away. We tried to rein her in. ‘You can’t go to this party, and you can’t hang out with so-and-so.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Donna found it hard to lay down the law for any length of time. “You become a jailer, which is not fun,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”Kfo8j15BfaTtV778Jwzc55k9CalAykEQ”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why didn’t Donna simply take away Cindy’s phone or Internet access? Cindy answers it best. “She really thought that if she punished me, I’d hurt myself.” Also, the phone was a valuable surveillance device for Donna, a way to keep tabs — however limited — on her daughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, Donna recalls following Cindy via GPS down Telegraph Avenue one Halloween night after dropping her off at a party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was probably trying to score something,” Donna recalls. “I kept texting, ‘Where are you?’ and she kept telling me, ‘Oh, at this other party,’ and I could see the little dot moving around. I said, ‘You know, I’m just coming to get you.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Things started to go downhill,” Donna continues. “It just went downhill really fast. I realized, again from looking at her phone, that she was financing her pot use by selling it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At this point, Donna had tried talk therapy, anti-depressants, dialectical behavior therapy — “a common form of therapy used for kids who cut” — which involved a year of classes for Cindy and Donna in Oakland at \u003ca href=\"http://www.clearwaterclinic.com/dialectical-behavior-therapy/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Clearwater Clinic\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, nothing they could do in Berkeley seemed to be working. “I feel like, at a certain point, I didn’t know who she was,” Donna says. “Someone who’s using drugs and abusing alcohol, there’s a lot they have to hide and a lot of manipulation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cindy agreed to go to North Carolina for 2½ months to attend what’s called a wilderness therapy program. There, Cindy was separated from everything: her friends, her drugs, her makeup and, of course, her iPhone. Such a dramatic intervention doesn’t always work. Some kids are literally dragged to wilderness school, and the therapy doesn’t take. But Cindy says she loved her experience at \u003ca href=\"http://trailscarolina.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trails \u003c/a>in North Carolina, and would even do it again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Coming Clean\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of her therapy, Cindy had to write letters home cataloging everything she’d done in the previous years. The letters were shocking to Donna. “I probably shouldn’t have trusted her as much as I did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donna was genuinely surprised at the level of Cindy’s drinking, despite a couple instances in which she vomited in public, and one time when she blacked out in a public park. A friend carried her to his home and called Donna from there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cindy’s stint at Trails was followed by a therapeutic boarding school, \u003ca href=\"http://www.springridgeacademy.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Spring Ridge Academy\u003c/a>, in Arizona, before she finished high school in the East Bay. She’s now a freshman at an East Coast university.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mother and daughter are on good terms these days. “I will never not regret the pain that I caused my mother,” Cindy says. “I always knew that she loved me. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What Donna Ultimately Realized Was Happening\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I really wanted attention,” Cindy says. At that time, she adds, “I didn’t really care how people thought of me. Like, I’m going to text this guy a million times until he stops replying, and then I’ll find the next one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cindy was an anxious kid, and a year into middle school, she found herself socially excluded by a group she calls the Abercrombie Girls, in reference to their focus on fashion. 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Some law enforcement agencies treat sexting an under-age girl as a criminal offense, but if the sexter is a teenage boy, that can come off as \u003ca href=\"http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p031fztz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">heavy-handed\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donna warned her daughters about the fact that photos are forever on the Internet, but Cindy was favoring the bad information she got from girlfriends, who told her guys were unlikely to forward her photos if she had sexual photos of them: a kind of mutually assured destruction pact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That turned out to be a naive assumption. But even after Cindy knew better, even after she had been publicly embarrassed, she kept sexting. Even after one of the older guys she was chatting with threatened to come find her, she kept looking for new, strange friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Parental Surveillance\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donna never really stalked her daughter. She openly checked Cindy’s phone once a week in middle school. But Cindy was much more careful about what she shared with her mom, regularly deleting incriminating evidence that could get her grounded or, at the very least, forced to endure a lecture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cindy wasn’t a big fan of social media, but Donna checked the feeds of her daughter’s Facebook friends nonetheless, looking for clues about her daughter’s life that Cindy wasn’t choosing to share with her. Donna also installed \u003ca href=\"http://www1.k9webprotection.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">K9 Web Protection\u003c/a>, filtering software that blocks sites and then emits a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyCXUuUKLxE&feature=youtu.be&t=6m23s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">loud dog bark\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cutting was the first clue that Cindy’s anxiety and depression were overwhelming her. Cindy fell in with a couple of girls at school who were also suffering from depression. They were also cutting themselves, and cutting themselves competitively with each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cindy described her first scars as evidence of an encounter with a cat. That excuse worked only once, and her tolerance grew over time, so she needed to cut more often “to get the same relief.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They look like what they are: razor cuts,” says Donna. “So they’re very thin, and precise — but they can get a little deep. I know, it’s horrible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon after the cutting began, Donna lined up a therapist, but Cindy didn’t take to the woman. She was formal, the kind of therapist who likes to review her notes at the end of a session — with a 13-year-old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It wasn’t more damaging,” Cindy says now, “but it just wasn’t helpful — and that was a critical time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All this was before high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Listen to more of Cindy’s reflections on middle school:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='undefined' height='undefined'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/223991953”&visual=true&undefined'\n title='”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/223991953”'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Berkeley High School\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately, high school didn’t go as well as we had hoped for her,” Donna says. “She started out strong her freshman year, but by her sophomore year, she had gotten again with a group that was kind of fringe — not exactly motivated in school, and they were smoking a lot of pot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s so easy to find,” Cindy says. “Everyone had this unlimited supply. I almost always got it for free in the beginning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By sophomore year, Cindy was smoking, by her own estimate, eight or nine “blunts” a day — and then drinking on top of that. There was also a one-month flirtation with cocaine, but that wasn’t her main drug.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite all this, Cindy was still getting A’s and B’s in school. She was taking care of business. “I was the only kid who went to class of the friends that I was with, ’cause I knew that If I started getting bad grades, my parents would notice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are kids who are very combative with their parents,” Donna says. “They’re ‘I hate you, Mom,’ and they’re fighting. We were never like that. She would tug at my heartstrings, versus push me away. We tried to rein her in. ‘You can’t go to this party, and you can’t hang out with so-and-so.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Donna found it hard to lay down the law for any length of time. “You become a jailer, which is not fun,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why didn’t Donna simply take away Cindy’s phone or Internet access? Cindy answers it best. “She really thought that if she punished me, I’d hurt myself.” Also, the phone was a valuable surveillance device for Donna, a way to keep tabs — however limited — on her daughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, Donna recalls following Cindy via GPS down Telegraph Avenue one Halloween night after dropping her off at a party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was probably trying to score something,” Donna recalls. “I kept texting, ‘Where are you?’ and she kept telling me, ‘Oh, at this other party,’ and I could see the little dot moving around. I said, ‘You know, I’m just coming to get you.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Things started to go downhill,” Donna continues. “It just went downhill really fast. I realized, again from looking at her phone, that she was financing her pot use by selling it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At this point, Donna had tried talk therapy, anti-depressants, dialectical behavior therapy — “a common form of therapy used for kids who cut” — which involved a year of classes for Cindy and Donna in Oakland at \u003ca href=\"http://www.clearwaterclinic.com/dialectical-behavior-therapy/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Clearwater Clinic\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, nothing they could do in Berkeley seemed to be working. “I feel like, at a certain point, I didn’t know who she was,” Donna says. “Someone who’s using drugs and abusing alcohol, there’s a lot they have to hide and a lot of manipulation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cindy agreed to go to North Carolina for 2½ months to attend what’s called a wilderness therapy program. There, Cindy was separated from everything: her friends, her drugs, her makeup and, of course, her iPhone. 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Tchen wouldn’t say, but she thought the potential new owner would be a good fit in keeping the film’s huge inventory available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If [the deal] does go through it will really be amazing, because the people I’m talking to have the perfect form and have the perfect name and probably have the perfect energy in thinking out of the box for a collection like Le Video’s,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tchen said if an agreement is reached, the store would move from its present location and might take a new name. “That doesn’t matter to me,” she said. “It’s being kept in one place and open to the public is my goal. If [the collection] belongs to a university, it’s OK for me, because I’ll recover a little bit of what I have put in of my personal money … but people wouldn’t have access to it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The people I’m talking to will keep it open to the public. It will have room to grow and be much more. 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But John Taylor, the store’s manager and buyer, said business has dropped by about another one-third since the move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mainly just people didn’t know we were here,” he said. “They’d walk by and see the bookstore, and no matter how many signs we have out front, no one sees them. People would say, ‘You need a sign.’ We have three signs. There’s not much more we can do in the sign department.’ People just assumed we were closed and there’s no way to really change that perception.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tchen, for her part, said the problem lies in the store’s enthusiastic but infrequent customer base. “People call and say, ‘Do you have this?’ and say, ‘Oh my God, I can’t believe you have it, you were my last resort.’ People think about us when they’ve exhausted every other resource. And of course we have what they want 99 percent of the time. 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"content": "\u003cp>Do politicians never learn?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or, in the case of our collective crazy racist uncle Donald Trump, are they just so rich they don't give a damn?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In yet the latest example of a presidential candidate using a pop song during their campaign without asking the artist's permission, the walking toupée chose to use R.E.M.'s classic \"It's the End of the World\" today in a\u003ca href=\"http://www.c-span.org/video/?c4550293/donald-trump-introduced-anti-iran-deal-rally-end-world\" target=\"_blank\"> stump speech he gave at an anti-Iran deal rally in Washington, D.C. \u003c/a>This is notable, stupid and entertaining for a number of reasons, not the least of which is that Trump's advisers almost certainly sat around trying to figure out how to show that he's \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeS-Xb5u4-U\" target=\"_blank\">\"with it\" and \"hip\"\u003c/a> and what they came up with was an alt-rock radio single from 1987.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anyway, to precisely no one's surprise, the (disbanded) band fired back within a few hours. First they released this official statement on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/REMhq/posts/10153181864262984\" target=\"_blank\">R.E.M. Facebook page\u003c/a>, which asks -- well, it basically asks if we can please not be petty enough to write this blog post about it:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/09/rem.png\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-18018 aligncenter\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/09/rem.png\" alt=\"rem\" width=\"489\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/09/rem.png 493w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/09/rem-400x184.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 489px) 100vw, 489px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And we might not have written one, if they had left it at that! But then Michael Stipe -- sweet, Buddhist-leaning, vegetarian Michael Stipe -- followed up with this, via R.E.M. bassist Mike Mills' \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/m_millsey/\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter account: \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Go f*** yourselves, the lot of you--you sad, attention grabbing, power-hungry little men. Do not use our music or my voice for your moronic charade of a campaign. -- Michael Stipe\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That gets you a blog post, Stipey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is \u003ca href=\"http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/stop-using-my-song-34-artists-who-fought-politicians-over-their-music-20150708\" target=\"_blank\">nothing new in politics\u003c/a>, of course, but this makes Trump a repeat offender within a very short, ballsy span of time. In June, after he used \"Rockin' in the Free World\" during a speech, Neil Young's camp raised objections -- because Young, who's Canadian, is a fan of Bernie Sanders. \u003ca href=\"http://www.stereogum.com/1810412/bernie-sanders-takes-over-neil-youngs-rockin-in-the-free-world/video/\" target=\"_blank\">Sanders picked it up the next week. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Humble suggestion for The Donald: \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2015/08/24/wanna-vote-like-your-favorite-musicians-heres-how/\" target=\"_blank\">Maybe give Ted Nugent a call. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0GFRcFm-aY\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>While Oakland wades into a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2015/07/28/artists-aghast-at-anti-public-art-lawsuit-against-oakland/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lawsuit\u003c/a> against the city’s percent for art ordinance, a new piece of public art on a private development quietly went up in San Francisco’s mid-Market neighborhood and was unveiled Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10943506\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10943506\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/1400Mission6401.jpg\" alt=\"The entrance of 1400 Mission. (Photo: Sarah Hotchkiss/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/1400Mission6401.jpg 640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/1400Mission6401-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The entrance of 1400 Mission. (Photo: Sarah Hotchkiss/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wrapping around the north-east corner of \u003ca href=\"http://1400missionsf.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1400 Mission\u003c/a> at the intersection of Jessie and 10th Streets, is a newly painted Sol LeWitt acrylic piece, \u003cem>Wall Drawing #1012\u003c/em>. Installed on site by a team of seven over the course of four weeks, the five-color geometric design by the famed late conceptual artist originally graced the exterior of a Los Angeles pool house, before it was purchased by Tishman Speyer, the building’s developers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Situated next door to the luxury apartment complex \u003ca href=\"http://rentnema.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NEMA\u003c/a> (not just a residential building but “a design-driven lifestyle pioneer,” according to its website) and across the street from Twitter HQ, 1400 Mission looks deceptively like another high-end housing development. But the nearly-finished 190-unit building is actually filled with below market rate housing. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10943417\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10943417\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/1400Mission640.jpg\" alt='\"Each home comes with its own washer and dryer, kitchen appliances, ample closet space, and granite countertops.\" Digital rendering of unit inside 1400 Mission. (Photo: 1400missionsf.com)' width=\"640\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/1400Mission640.jpg 640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/1400Mission640-400x211.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“Each home comes with its own washer and dryer, kitchen appliances, ample closet space, and granite countertops.” Digital rendering of unit inside 1400 Mission. (Photo: 1400missionsf.com)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Local nonprofits like the Mission Economic Development Agency and the San Francisco LGBT Community Center worked to place first-time homebuyers earning 100% or less of the area median income in the units. It was built in collaboration with the Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation to fulfill Tishman Speyer’s inclusionary housing requirement for \u003ca href=\"http://luminasf.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LUMINA\u003c/a>, the developer’s fully market-rate SOMA high rise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back on the building’s exterior, the LeWitt wall drawing is 91.5 feet long and just over 9.5 feet tall. It’s rare to see a LeWitt out of doors — let alone on view to the public — for free. But \u003cem>Wall Drawing #1012\u003c/em> will be visible day and night, thanks to a bank of LED lights installed above the work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10943507\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10943507\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/Colors640.jpg\" alt=\"Each block of color got seven layers of acrylic paint. (Photo: Sarah Hotchkiss/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/Colors640.jpg 640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/Colors640-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Each block of color got seven layers of acrylic paint. (Photo: Sarah Hotchkiss/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Takeshi Arita, a LeWitt installer with decades of experience on all types of LeWitt wall drawings — from graphite to colored pencil the vibrant hues of \u003cem>#1012\u003c/em> — led the team in executing what is really a set of written instructions, beginning with diligently preparing the wall surface. 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Installers constantly trade roles and places on the wall, to maintain what seasoned LeWitt installer Amy Rathbone, quoting the artist, describes as “a universal hand.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10943508\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10943508\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/Dogs640.jpg\" alt=\"Remnants of an ongoing battle with local dog owners. (Photo: Sarah Hotchkiss/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/Dogs640.jpg 640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/Dogs640-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Remnants of an ongoing battle with local dog owners. (Photo: Sarah Hotchkiss/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Christine Lee, a first time LeWitt installer with no previous mural or painting experience, relishes the simple tools and meditative aspects of the job. “A lot of stuff happens when you just spend time on the same corner for 24 days,” Lee says, referring to how attuned the install crew became to the neighborhood’s cycles of foot and car traffic, their fight against dust and the changing qualities of light. The installers also engaged in a lengthy battle against the dog owners of NEMA. Hand-drawn signs posted around the install site read, “Please no dog pee here. So smelly for us,” followed by a sad face.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The final step before the scaffolding, fence and mesh came down was a matte layer of Sheercoat, a clear, water-based acrylic copolymer that protects against graffiti attacks, UV rays and urban pollutants. Precita Eyes uses the same product on all of their murals. Members of the install team have voiced their concerns about the vulnerability of the piece on a public street corner. But maintenance of a LeWitt wall drawing is part of every sales contract, and Tishman Speyer will shoulder that responsibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, the future residents of 1400 Mission and the city of San Francisco just got a new piece of public art — our very first Sol LeWitt.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>The national hysteria over \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/09/us/kim-davis-same-sex-marriage.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">Kim Davis\u003c/a>, the Kentucky clerk who was jailed for refusing to grant marriage licenses to same-sex couples, has been, well, a godsend to late-night comedians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It has also been an opportunity for one California comedy writer, who created the Twitter account \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=sit%20next%20to%20kim%20davis&src=tyah\" target=\"_blank\">@sitnexttokimdavis\u003c/a>. It was inspired by the photo of a slightly stunned co-worker sitting next to Davis. And the tweets are in her voice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I reached out to the writer with a Twitter message and he responded right away. Then we talked by phone. He's a comedy writer in Los Angeles who asked that we use only his first name, Dave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dave said he started the account as a joke on a friend's Facebook page. It now has more than 91,000 followers. \"Five minutes after I created it, (gay columnist) Dan Savage called it his new favorite Twitter account -- and I haven't left my computer since.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tweets are all in the voice of Davis' co-worker, seen in a photo of the office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"LOL MY BOSS IS IN JAIL RIGHT NOW,\" said one tweet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're going to hide the shredder. That will drive #KimDavis crazy when she gets here,\" said another, after Davis was released from jail Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dave said he \"absolutely\" supports gay marriage and notes that while he was growing up in Montgomery, Alabama, his grandparents were active in the civil rights movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They were also friends with Rosa Parks and, you know, to equate the two things (Davis refusing to give out marriage licenses to gay couples and Parks refusing to give up her seat on a bus) is shocking to me, and little offensive,\" said Dave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I asked Dave what surprised him most since the account went live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The thing that surprises me the most is how much more reaction I get when I mention a piece of office equipment,\" he said in all seriousness. \"Any tweet that refers to a Xerox machine or a chair, people really, really seem to enjoy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, Dave hopes to de-escalate the whole issue by keeping it all in perspective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is just one person, not a huge movement, not a huge war,\" Dave said. \"Just one person being kind of a jerk to everybody at her work.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dave came to L.A. five years ago from Chicago, where he worked for the legendary \u003ca href=\"http://www.secondcity.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Second City\u003c/a> comedy club that launched the likes of Dan Aykroyd and Jim Belushi. Now he teaches comedy and improv classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He realizes this Twitter thing going viral could be a career opportunity for him. Still, he's waiting for advice from his agent before he reveals his full identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm not sure that's a good idea,\" he said. \"I don't want to put myself out on this in a way that's not safe for me.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://web.stanford.edu/group/religiouslife/cgi-bin/wordpress/about-orl/orl-staff/the-very-rev-dr-jane-shaw/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stanford University’s Jane Shaw \u003c/a>is a kind of empathy activist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How do you make the leap,” she said a few days ago, “to understand the experience of another person is really what empathy’s about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/222258730″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shaw, Stanford’s Dean for Religious Life, was showing me around a small-but-choice exhibit called \u003ca href=\"http://museum.stanford.edu/view/exhibition_sched_new.html#Empathy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>Empathy\u003c/em>, \u003c/a>at Stanford’s \u003ca href=\"http://museum.stanford.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cantor Arts Center.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10933933\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/Jane-Shaw-e1441297287793-400x364.jpg\" alt=\"Jane Shaw, Dean for Religious Life at Stanford University\" width=\"400\" height=\"364\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10933933\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jane Shaw, Dean for Religious Life at Stanford University \u003ccite>(Courtesy: Jane Shaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The show is a companion piece to a class on empathy Shaw is teaching this fall, and a way for any museum goer to engage with a hot topic these days for religious scholars, neuroscientists, artists and politicians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Everyone from President Barack Obama to social psychologists are reporting a deficit in empathy and or a lack of compassion among college students, and a corresponding rise in narcissism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We live in a pretty individualistic society,” Shaw said, “It’s all about the selfie… which is me, me, me, right?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Bay Area residents have a surprising number of ways to refresh their empathy skills through the arts, including Shaw’s exhibit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a pair of Diane Arbus photos: one of a tattooed man and another of female impersonator that Shaw notes raise issues about “the difference between objectifying the strange, and empathizing with the strange.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The key images in the show may be a series of four etchings by Hans Beham, based on Jesus’ parable about the Prodigal Son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The parable describes how the younger of two sons demands his inheritance, wastes it in wild living, then returns home, expecting to be punished. 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Smith is known for her documentary theater work about class and race, in which she embodies the words and physical tics of the people she interviews. She often works barefoot so she can better “walk in the words,” she says, “of her subjects.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a sign of the power of art, especially theater, to inspire empathy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact Shaw’s class made me think about the preshow welcome I’ve often heard from Bill English, Artistic Director for San Francisco Playhouse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We like to think of ourselves as our community’s empathy gym,” is how Bill English opened a recent performance. “It’s a place where we come to work out our powers of compassion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10933935\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 361px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/Bill-English-and-Susi-Damilano-e1441303876539.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10933935\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/Bill-English-and-Susi-Damilano-e1441303876539.png\" alt=\"San Francisco Playhouse Artistic Director Bill English and Executive Director Susi Damilano\" width=\"361\" height=\"216\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Playhouse Artistic Director Bill English and Executive Director Susi Damilano \u003ccite>(Courtesy San Francisco Playhouse)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We identify with these actors up here. And we feel what they feel, we love what they love, and we hope what they hope for. And it’s our belief we can take that spirit of unity that we build together in the dark, out into the streets, and make our world a better place one play at a time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A comment that draws both laughs and applause for its heartfelt idealism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The funny thing is when English talks about theater as an empathy gym, he sounds like \u003ca href=\"http://ssnl.stanford.edu/people\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jamil Zaki,\u003c/a> a Stanford professor and neuropsychologist doing research on empathy using new tools like brain scans from an MRI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think of lots of different forms of art as empathy boot camp,” Zaki said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few years ago Zaki looked at that \u003ca href=\"http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-me-care/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">research showing that college students are less empathetic today than 30 years ago.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a lot easier to insult someone in a YouTube comment section when you’re anonymous and they’re anonymous, and you don’t have to see their reaction, than when you’re right in front of them,” Zaki said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The arts act as an antidote to that estrangement,” Zaki added, “[and] provide you with a very low risk way of entering worlds and lives and minds that are far from what you would normally experience.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One study found that reading literature, but not junk fiction, increases a person’s ability to be empathetic. Though Zaki wondered “does reading make you more empathetic, or does being more empathetic make you want to read more fiction?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People, and some animals, come into the world ready for empathy, because we’re born with what are called mirror neurons. And Zaki believes the arts can stimulate those neurons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So if you see a painting of someone being whipped,” Zaki said. “Or they’re weeping profusely. Then you take on that state. I’m sure that applies to visual art. I’m absolutely sure it applies to performance art where they’re actually posing expressions and experiencing things in front of you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zaki said he had that experience when he and his research team, took in the Pixar film \u003ca href=\"http://www.pixar.com/features_films/Inside-Out\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">“Inside Out.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The movie gives voice to the turbulent emotional life of a young girl whose parents move to San Francisco so her dad can join a startup.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zaki said he made a connection he didn’t expect, because he and his wife are about to have a daughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And I’m thinking about that little girl (in the movie) and her connection to her parents,” Zaki said. “I felt I connected with that at a much deeper level, than I would have before when we didn’t know we were having a kid. ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s an easy form of empathy for us, Zaki said. But people can make far greater empathetic leaps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Empathy is often work,” said Zaki. “It’s an effort that we make to find the commonalities between yourself and someone else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s something University of San Francisco theater professor Christine Young observed when she used to teach in Iowa. She’d assign her students Tony Kushner’s Pulitzer Prize winning play \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angels_in_America:_A_Gay_Fantasia_on_National_Themes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Angels in America\u003c/a>, about the AIDS crisis, a gay Mormon, and many other things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And the same thing would happen every time,” she said. “Many of the students who had come from a conservative Christian background would initially object to the subject matter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Young says, people would come to empathize with the struggles of the character of Louis, who abandons his lover when he learns he has AIDS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s one of the great gifts of that play is it helped a whole generation of people realize that the lives of gay people are just like the lives of heterosexual people. That the loss of a loved one is the same no matter who they are,” Young said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that sense that we’re all connected in some way is what Stanford’s Jane Shaw hopes to explore in her her empathy class and exhibit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The world’s problems,” Shaw said, “the world’s wars are because we don’t understand each other. So the more we can understand each other the better. The more we can step into each other’s shoes the better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Cantor Arts Center show, \u003cem>Empathy\u003c/em>, continues through Jan. 25. Anna Deveare Smith does her residency as Stanford in October.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://web.stanford.edu/group/religiouslife/cgi-bin/wordpress/about-orl/orl-staff/the-very-rev-dr-jane-shaw/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stanford University’s Jane Shaw \u003c/a>is a kind of empathy activist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How do you make the leap,” she said a few days ago, “to understand the experience of another person is really what empathy’s about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='”100%”' height='”166″'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/222258730″&visual=true&”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false”'\n title='”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/222258730″'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shaw, Stanford’s Dean for Religious Life, was showing me around a small-but-choice exhibit called \u003ca href=\"http://museum.stanford.edu/view/exhibition_sched_new.html#Empathy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>Empathy\u003c/em>, \u003c/a>at Stanford’s \u003ca href=\"http://museum.stanford.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cantor Arts Center.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10933933\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/Jane-Shaw-e1441297287793-400x364.jpg\" alt=\"Jane Shaw, Dean for Religious Life at Stanford University\" width=\"400\" height=\"364\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10933933\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jane Shaw, Dean for Religious Life at Stanford University \u003ccite>(Courtesy: Jane Shaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The show is a companion piece to a class on empathy Shaw is teaching this fall, and a way for any museum goer to engage with a hot topic these days for religious scholars, neuroscientists, artists and politicians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Everyone from President Barack Obama to social psychologists are reporting a deficit in empathy and or a lack of compassion among college students, and a corresponding rise in narcissism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We live in a pretty individualistic society,” Shaw said, “It’s all about the selfie… which is me, me, me, right?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Bay Area residents have a surprising number of ways to refresh their empathy skills through the arts, including Shaw’s exhibit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a pair of Diane Arbus photos: one of a tattooed man and another of female impersonator that Shaw notes raise issues about “the difference between objectifying the strange, and empathizing with the strange.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The key images in the show may be a series of four etchings by Hans Beham, based on Jesus’ parable about the Prodigal Son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The parable describes how the younger of two sons demands his inheritance, wastes it in wild living, then returns home, expecting to be punished. To his and his older brother’s surprise, the father greets the prodigal with open arms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the prodigal son story is important,” Shaw said, “because at different times we can all relate to all of the characters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Are we the father distraught by the son who’s gone off, and just unbelievably thrilled that the younger son has come home?” Shaw asks. “Or are we the older son who’s been good and dutiful, then when the younger son comes back, he’s the one who gets the fatted calf for him?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The point, Shaw says, is not to judge, but to empathize — to put oneself in someone else’s shoes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s an apt metaphor for the actress and playwright \u003ca href=\"https://live.stanford.edu/calendar/October-2015/all/all/all/Theater\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anna Deveare Smith\u003c/a>, who’ll be a guest lecturer for Shaw’s class. Smith is known for her documentary theater work about class and race, in which she embodies the words and physical tics of the people she interviews. She often works barefoot so she can better “walk in the words,” she says, “of her subjects.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a sign of the power of art, especially theater, to inspire empathy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact Shaw’s class made me think about the preshow welcome I’ve often heard from Bill English, Artistic Director for San Francisco Playhouse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We like to think of ourselves as our community’s empathy gym,” is how Bill English opened a recent performance. “It’s a place where we come to work out our powers of compassion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10933935\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 361px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/Bill-English-and-Susi-Damilano-e1441303876539.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10933935\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/Bill-English-and-Susi-Damilano-e1441303876539.png\" alt=\"San Francisco Playhouse Artistic Director Bill English and Executive Director Susi Damilano\" width=\"361\" height=\"216\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Playhouse Artistic Director Bill English and Executive Director Susi Damilano \u003ccite>(Courtesy San Francisco Playhouse)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We identify with these actors up here. And we feel what they feel, we love what they love, and we hope what they hope for. And it’s our belief we can take that spirit of unity that we build together in the dark, out into the streets, and make our world a better place one play at a time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A comment that draws both laughs and applause for its heartfelt idealism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The funny thing is when English talks about theater as an empathy gym, he sounds like \u003ca href=\"http://ssnl.stanford.edu/people\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jamil Zaki,\u003c/a> a Stanford professor and neuropsychologist doing research on empathy using new tools like brain scans from an MRI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think of lots of different forms of art as empathy boot camp,” Zaki said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few years ago Zaki looked at that \u003ca href=\"http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-me-care/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">research showing that college students are less empathetic today than 30 years ago.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a lot easier to insult someone in a YouTube comment section when you’re anonymous and they’re anonymous, and you don’t have to see their reaction, than when you’re right in front of them,” Zaki said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The arts act as an antidote to that estrangement,” Zaki added, “[and] provide you with a very low risk way of entering worlds and lives and minds that are far from what you would normally experience.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One study found that reading literature, but not junk fiction, increases a person’s ability to be empathetic. Though Zaki wondered “does reading make you more empathetic, or does being more empathetic make you want to read more fiction?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People, and some animals, come into the world ready for empathy, because we’re born with what are called mirror neurons. And Zaki believes the arts can stimulate those neurons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So if you see a painting of someone being whipped,” Zaki said. “Or they’re weeping profusely. Then you take on that state. I’m sure that applies to visual art. I’m absolutely sure it applies to performance art where they’re actually posing expressions and experiencing things in front of you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zaki said he had that experience when he and his research team, took in the Pixar film \u003ca href=\"http://www.pixar.com/features_films/Inside-Out\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">“Inside Out.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The movie gives voice to the turbulent emotional life of a young girl whose parents move to San Francisco so her dad can join a startup.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zaki said he made a connection he didn’t expect, because he and his wife are about to have a daughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And I’m thinking about that little girl (in the movie) and her connection to her parents,” Zaki said. “I felt I connected with that at a much deeper level, than I would have before when we didn’t know we were having a kid. ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s an easy form of empathy for us, Zaki said. 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"content": "\u003cp>News of the death of San Francisco-based architect and arts patron David Cunningham spread swiftly on Facebook this week, to the disbelief of many who knew the former owner of \u003ca href=\"http://www.davidcunninghamprojects.com/Site/DCP.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">David Cunningham Projects\u003c/a> (DCP), an alternative gallery on Folsom Street. The stalwart arts supporter and former Southern Exposure board member died from cancer on Sunday; he was 48. Modern Edinburgh Film School posted a tribute to him on Facebook, espousing the “energy, intellect and special presence of David Cunningham and his fantastic gallery.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10932657\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 554px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10932657 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/DC2.jpg\" alt=\"A rare picture of Cunningham. (Photo: Alan Bamberger / artbusiness.com)\" width=\"554\" height=\"648\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/DC2.jpg 554w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/DC2-400x468.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/DC2-513x600.jpg 513w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 554px) 100vw, 554px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A rare picture of Cunningham. (Photo: Alan Bamberger / artbusiness.com)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He did indeed have a special presence: very quiet, extremely generous and deeply committed to artists and the importance of art. His architecture projects will stand as testament to his contributions to public life. The many artists, designers and architects he worked with will continue to feel his influence as an arts champion, here and abroad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I first met Cunningham in 2008 through artist Michael Damm. My curatorial enterprise Invisible Venue produced a site-specific series of Damm’s video projections in West Oakland in association with DCP, which was simultaneously \u003ca href=\"http://www.artbusiness.com/1open/121308.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">projecting Damm’s videos onto the street\u003c/a> in San Francisco. Over the years, Cunningham would drop me a supportive note from time to time, whenever my writing generated a lot of commentary and/or controversy, as the case sometimes has been.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, as board vice president, he invited me to speak with the Southern Exposure staff and board about the shifting landscape of support for artists in the San Francisco Bay Area. Like many others, I will miss his quiet advocacy and gentle humor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Born in Zambia to Irish parents, he spent much of his early childhood in Africa before returning to Ireland. Cunningham studied architecture at University College of Dublin. He moved to San Francisco in 1993 and worked at the firm Studios Architecture before joining Oculus Architects in 1998. His early projects include the extraordinary Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur. More recently his clients include University of California, San Francisco; University of San Francisco, and St. Mary’s College, where he was the lead architect and project designer on the $23.5 million Joseph Alioto Recreation Center, completed earlier this year. His longtime friend and colleague, Hugh Cotter, a principal at Oculus Architects, said recently, “He never introduced the precious or pastiche, but just saw, with an artist’s eye, what others might miss.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10932646\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10932646\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/KuriousOrange640.jpg\" alt=\"'I Am Kurious Orange' at David Cunningham Projects, 2009. (Photo: David Cunningham Projects)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/KuriousOrange640.jpg 640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/KuriousOrange640-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘I Am Kurious Orange’ at David Cunningham Projects, 2009. (Photo: David Cunningham Projects)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cunningham established DCP out of his architecture studio in 2007, presenting a wide range of challenging, provocative and ambitious projects until 2010. There he showed international artists including Austin McQuinn, Bernadette Cotter, Pawel Kruk and Richard T. Walker, and many others. Artist Anne Colvin organized \u003cem>I am Kurious Orange\u003c/em> at DCP in 2009; author Kevin Killian described the show as “\u003ca href=\"http://openspace.sfmoma.org/2009/05/orange-skies/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a theatrical extravaganza\u003c/a>” on SFMOMA’s Open Space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Colvin notes Cunningham’s extraordinary generosity. He directly supported artists out-of-pocket and funded the production of challenging work, simply because he believed in it. “His interests,” Colvin says, “weren’t dictated by trends, but guided very much by his own passions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is evident not only in the scope of the work that he presented, but in the scope of community he created. Case in point: A DCP 2008 exhibition featured the work Marshall Elementary School students, grades K – 5, focused on their visions for a better world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10932647\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10932647\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/DCPInstall640.jpg\" alt=\"Installation view of 'Chris Ashley & Alan Disparte,' David Cunningham Projects, 2008. (Photo: David Cunningham Projects)\" width=\"640\" height=\"474\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/DCPInstall640.jpg 640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/DCPInstall640-400x296.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Installation view of ‘Chris Ashley & Alan Disparte,’ David Cunningham Projects, 2008. (Photo: David Cunningham Projects)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Echoing Colvin’s stories of his commitment, Walker, who worked for the gallery from the second show until it closed, recalled when Cunningham hired a structural engineer to reinforce the gallery floors in order to present Mariele Neudecker’s \u003cem>Tanks\u003c/em>. “The gallery,” Walker says, “became a place where something was genuinely \u003cem>happening;\u003c/em> things were unpredictable in the best possible way and although David was at the center of it all he would never accept any credit, as for him it was always about the artists.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After DCP closed, following an untenable rent increase that seemed to initiate an avalanche of change in the city, Southern Exposure’s then-executive director Courtney Fink invited Cunningham to jury the annual Alternative Exposure grant awards. Shortly thereafter he joined the board and became, in her words, “indispensible from the moment he arrived.” Cunningham also continued to organize shows, including the 2011 group exhibition \u003cem>Enter Slowly\u003c/em> featuring seven international artists at \u003ca href=\"http://sfartenthusiast.com/2011/01/enter-slowly-at-the-lab/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Lab\u003c/a>, among other independent projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cunningham possessed a unique vision for the possibilities in a city where rising costs have increasingly narrowed the field for risk and experimentation, and a genuine spirit that will be forever associated with a particularly vital and necessary moment in the San Francisco art scene. For any of us lucky enough to have experienced both, he will be deeply missed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Cunningham is survived by his parents Steve and Margôt Cunningham of Galway, Ireland, his siblings and their extended families, as well as a vast international network of friends from the Bay Area and beyond. He will be laid to rest in a private ceremony this week in Ireland. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.soex.org/news/2015/08/31/remembering-david-cunningham\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">celebration of his life and contributions\u003c/a> will take place later this fall at Southern Exposure. In lieu of flowers, his family has requested donations in his memory to \u003ca href=\"https://www.galwayhospice.ie/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Galway Hospice\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>News of the death of San Francisco-based architect and arts patron David Cunningham spread swiftly on Facebook this week, to the disbelief of many who knew the former owner of \u003ca href=\"http://www.davidcunninghamprojects.com/Site/DCP.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">David Cunningham Projects\u003c/a> (DCP), an alternative gallery on Folsom Street. The stalwart arts supporter and former Southern Exposure board member died from cancer on Sunday; he was 48. Modern Edinburgh Film School posted a tribute to him on Facebook, espousing the “energy, intellect and special presence of David Cunningham and his fantastic gallery.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10932657\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 554px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10932657 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/DC2.jpg\" alt=\"A rare picture of Cunningham. (Photo: Alan Bamberger / artbusiness.com)\" width=\"554\" height=\"648\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/DC2.jpg 554w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/DC2-400x468.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/DC2-513x600.jpg 513w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 554px) 100vw, 554px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A rare picture of Cunningham. (Photo: Alan Bamberger / artbusiness.com)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He did indeed have a special presence: very quiet, extremely generous and deeply committed to artists and the importance of art. His architecture projects will stand as testament to his contributions to public life. The many artists, designers and architects he worked with will continue to feel his influence as an arts champion, here and abroad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I first met Cunningham in 2008 through artist Michael Damm. My curatorial enterprise Invisible Venue produced a site-specific series of Damm’s video projections in West Oakland in association with DCP, which was simultaneously \u003ca href=\"http://www.artbusiness.com/1open/121308.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">projecting Damm’s videos onto the street\u003c/a> in San Francisco. Over the years, Cunningham would drop me a supportive note from time to time, whenever my writing generated a lot of commentary and/or controversy, as the case sometimes has been.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, as board vice president, he invited me to speak with the Southern Exposure staff and board about the shifting landscape of support for artists in the San Francisco Bay Area. Like many others, I will miss his quiet advocacy and gentle humor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Born in Zambia to Irish parents, he spent much of his early childhood in Africa before returning to Ireland. Cunningham studied architecture at University College of Dublin. He moved to San Francisco in 1993 and worked at the firm Studios Architecture before joining Oculus Architects in 1998. His early projects include the extraordinary Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur. More recently his clients include University of California, San Francisco; University of San Francisco, and St. Mary’s College, where he was the lead architect and project designer on the $23.5 million Joseph Alioto Recreation Center, completed earlier this year. His longtime friend and colleague, Hugh Cotter, a principal at Oculus Architects, said recently, “He never introduced the precious or pastiche, but just saw, with an artist’s eye, what others might miss.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10932646\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10932646\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/KuriousOrange640.jpg\" alt=\"'I Am Kurious Orange' at David Cunningham Projects, 2009. 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Artist Anne Colvin organized \u003cem>I am Kurious Orange\u003c/em> at DCP in 2009; author Kevin Killian described the show as “\u003ca href=\"http://openspace.sfmoma.org/2009/05/orange-skies/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a theatrical extravaganza\u003c/a>” on SFMOMA’s Open Space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Despite a lot of laughter and hooting when the question was read aloud, one man rose and invited whomever had written the note to reach out after the meeting. That man became Liam's sponsor in \u003ca href=\"https://saa-recovery.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sex Addicts Anonymous\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignleft\">Hear from one of the foremost thinkers on the subject of porn addiction: \u003cstrong>Alexandra Katehakis\u003c/strong>, founder and clinical director of the Center for Healthy Sex in Los Angeles:\u003cbr>\n[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/221349566\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Every night now, Liam reports by phone. Has he exercised that day? Has he done something fun like go to a movie? Or something shameful? Is he resentful about anything? 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>This is not a story about whether porn is good or bad. This is not a story about whether porn addiction \u003cem>should\u003c/em> be a clinical diagnosis. This is a story about Liam (and we’re not using his real name because of the sensitive nature of the topic).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Liam, porn became a compulsive, damaging habit around the time that high-speed Internet came around -- which is to say, his entire adult life, starting when he was 20. He’s 38 now, and it’s been a little over a year since he decided to quit. We asked him to go back in time for us and describe what his habit was like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout alignright\">\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http://u.s.kqed.net/2015/09/14/LITDApodcastlogo.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/love-in-the-digital-age/id1037051180?mt=2\">Subscribe in iTunes\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Don't miss an episode of 'Love in the Digital Age'\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Bubble\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's like a bubble,\" he recalls. \"It's like an exciting, adrenaline-filled state of mind where you're not thinking about, 'OK, I have these bills due,' or 'I have to go meet my boss tomorrow and I'm nervous,' or 'She wants to talk about the relationship and I don't want to!' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At times, Liam would stay in the bubble for five, 10 hours at a time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Liam spent his hours scanning hundreds of images linking to videos, scrolling until he found just the right one for that moment. \"OK, there’s the girl I want to look at.\" Then he'd scroll some more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or perhaps he'd meet or pass a woman during the day that sparked his curiosity. “OK, I want to see what it would look like if that person was having sex.\" He'd go home and search for a video featuring somebody who looked like that woman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liam's level of engagement with porn may have been more compulsive than average but it's hard to know, because many men are uncomfortable going public with their porn use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's an extra-special element of shame to this problem,\" says Liam, adding that people will \"deny it up and down the street, like I used to.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pornography inspires powerful emotional responses, from those who see it as immoral, to those who feel it is \u003ca href=\"https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/women-who-stray/201307/your-brain-porn-its-not-addictive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">demonized \u003c/a>by parents and the media, to those who would simply \u003ca href=\"http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/06/was-i-actually-addicted-to-internet-pornography/276619/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">love a scientific explanation\u003c/a> for what they're experiencing. Sex, after all, is universal in a way few things are, other than food and sleep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this TED Talk, one of Liam's favorite public discussions about porn, retired science teacher Gary Wilson notes many researchers say they can't find a control group of men who have not been exposed to some pornography at some point in their lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/wSF82AwSDiU'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/wSF82AwSDiU'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liam, who works in construction and lives in Los Angeles, is no awkward loner using porn as a stand-in for human contact. He's the son of a therapist, raised in a \"liberal\" home in Santa Cruz. He's articulate and charming, and a veteran of several relationships, one of which almost led to marriage. But from early on, those girlfriends were competing with porn for primacy in Liam's mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Excitement and shame mixed together makes [porn] this erotic thing, whereas just being with someone’s kinda boring,\" Liam says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's not to say Liam wasn't bothered by what he called his emotional numbness. \"It’s almost like when I’m looking at pornography, I’m burning off the little receptors that are my feelings and enable me to care for somebody. You know, they get fried.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Of course, I had these fantasies of ... oh, I want to do X, Y and Z once I saw that in a pornographic movie. But once I would find someone who was willing to do whatever I wanted, I’d be bored, like, right away.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Over the years, friends suggested to Liam he consider getting help, but he brushed them off. Ironically, he was open -- even proud -- of his involvement with \u003ca href=\"http://www.aa.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alcoholics Anonymous\u003c/a>. He's been in AA for 16 years now, thriving on the structured approach to recovery and the supportive community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, about a year and a half ago, Liam paid for sex. \"The first time I did, I thought 'This is a great solution.' You know what I mean? 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That man became Liam's sponsor in \u003ca href=\"https://saa-recovery.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sex Addicts Anonymous\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignleft\">Hear from one of the foremost thinkers on the subject of porn addiction: \u003cstrong>Alexandra Katehakis\u003c/strong>, founder and clinical director of the Center for Healthy Sex in Los Angeles:\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/221349566&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/221349566'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Every night now, Liam reports by phone. Has he exercised that day? Has he done something fun like go to a movie? Or something shameful? Is he resentful about anything? What is he grateful for? One thing is for sure: Liam is grateful for his SAA sponsor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have one person who’s willing to spend a lot of time talking to me on the phone,\" he says. \"I’ve been doing that for over a year and he never, ever makes it seem like it’s a burden.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years, there have been a number of movies made about online porn addiction. 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"content": "\u003cp>Imagine you can’t be near the person you love. It could be a long-distance relationship or a military deployment. Jorge Arreola and his wife, Maria Magdalena Ortega Delgado, are three years into a 10-year separation. Magda -- everyone calls her Magda -- overstayed a tourist visa, and U.S. immigration law requires her to stay out of the country for a decade before she can apply to return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout alignright\">\n\u003cimg class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http://u.s.kqed.net/2015/09/14/LITDApodcastlogo.jpg\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/love-in-the-digital-age/id1037051180?mt=2\">Subscribe in iTunes\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Don't miss an episode of 'Love in the Digital Age'\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Jorge is a U.S. citizen, who lives in San Jose and works as an equipment engineer at \u003ca href=\"http://amphenol-sensors.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Amphenol Sensors\u003c/a> in Fremont. He tries to present a brave face, but he grieves.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Half of myself is over there with her, and half of herself is over here with me.'\u003ccite> Jorge Arreola \u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Sitting in his home office, surrounded by books and photos of Magda, he says, \"I try to keep myself busy. That way, we don’t think about this situation, but it’s hard. You can get to a depression, by just thinking over and over and over, about the same thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jorge and Magda live much of their marriage in a third place they have created online, using their phone, Facebook Messenger and FaceTime. When I visited him, we connected with Magda on FaceTime so we could all talk together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Magda, who is 44, went back to a village called \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/place/Margaritas,+Jal.,+Mexico/@20.4543837,-102.4739238,9z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x842ec879bc58e2d1:0x647cb0a4b9a7cef4\">Margaritas\u003c/a>, population 3,000, about 80 miles east of Guadalajara . She grew up there, and she still has relatives there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jorge, 47, does come to visit, every two or three months. Magda often meets him in Tijuana, where Jorge was born, or he flies to Guadalajara, a 3½- to four-hour journey from San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How Magda Got in Trouble With Immigration Authorities\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Magda's father immigrated to the United States legally from Mexico in 1992. Over the years, she visited periodically. When Magda was around 20, she visited and overstayed her tourist visa. Then she left the U.S. for Mexico and returned “without inspection,” which means what you think it means: She crossed the border illegally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"EDO6NohJ1kzPsKQ6PSmwGxVSpn71Ednz\"]\u003cbr>\nDespite all that, Magda expected to gain papers under her family’s application for green cards, which they eventually acquired. What Magda didn’t realize was that her cross-border travel put her in a precarious situation following \u003ca href=\"http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/free-books/fiance-marriage-visa-book/chapter2-4.html\">a 1996 change in immigration law\u003c/a>, designed to penalize people who spent time in the U.S. illegally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She unwittingly further complicated her status with the U.S. government when she married Jorge in 1994\u003cstrong>,\u003c/strong> after meeting him at a church in San Jose. She was no longer her father's child in the eyes of immigration authorities, and no longer qualified to be included in her father's immigration package.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10648551\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16386_Jorge_Magda_wedding-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10648551 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16386_Jorge_Magda_wedding-qut-800x538.jpg\" alt=\"Jorge and Magda's wedding, 21 years ago.\" width=\"800\" height=\"538\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16386_Jorge_Magda_wedding-qut-800x538.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16386_Jorge_Magda_wedding-qut-400x269.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16386_Jorge_Magda_wedding-qut.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jorge and Magda's wedding, 21 years ago.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Given that Jorge has been a U.S. citizen since 2008, Jorge and Magda figured they could adjust her immigration status. But after years of attempting to do just that, Magda lost her appeal. Here’s an excerpt from the 2011 Board of Immigration Appeals decision against her:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>“The respondent is ineligible for a grant of adjustment of status. … The Immigration Judge additionally concluded that the respondent did not satisfy the 10-year continuous physical presence requirement for cancellation of removal.”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This spelled big trouble for the couple. Magda would have to leave the U.S. for 10 years before she could reapply for entry legally as Jorge’s wife. Magda left voluntarily in April 2012, rather than be arrested and deported by the authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ironically, when she was in the U.S., Magda worked as the associate producer on an independent film called \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2015/05/02/an-undocumented-student-finds-unlikely-support-in-sin-visa/\">\"Sin Visa.\"\u003c/a> It showcases life in California as an undocumented person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Margaritas, Jalisco\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10651125\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16437_Margaritas-street-view-with-church-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10651125\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16437_Margaritas-street-view-with-church-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Street view of Margaritas, Jalisco, with Our Lady of the Assumption Church at the end.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16437_Margaritas-street-view-with-church-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16437_Margaritas-street-view-with-church-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16437_Margaritas-street-view-with-church-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16437_Margaritas-street-view-with-church-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16437_Margaritas-street-view-with-church-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16437_Margaritas-street-view-with-church-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Street view of Margaritas, Jalisco, with Our Lady of the Assumption Church at the end. \u003ccite>(Fernando Aguila Navarro)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s like a small village,\" Magda explains . \"Very simple people, but with a very warm and big heart. You are welcome to come anytime you want to!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jorge thought about moving to Mexico to be with Magda, but he makes good money in his career here. If he left, he figured he’d be fixing computers at a corner store in Mexico, earning peanuts. Jorge needs the money: The couple has incurred legal debt over the years, trying to adjust Magda's immigration status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's another reason. Jorge and Magda don't have children, but their two young goddaughters live in the Bay Area. He and Magda are very close to the girls, who sometimes travel with him to see her in Mexico. He says it would be very hard on the girls if both he and Magda left. Her forced departure is already hard on both of their families. Their former home in Milpitas was the social center where relatives gathered for major holidays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Staying connected\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our house, it was like a grandma’s house. Because all my family, all my sisters and brothers, we get together for the feasts, for everything, for the holy days,\" Magda says. \"Now that I’m here, it’s kind of hard. So, last year, I was in charge to do the blessing during the Thanksgiving and Christmas. Well, since I was not with them, I used the iPad and I was able to see each other and the food and I sent my bless[ing] for the food.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She adds: \"I love pumpkin pie.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In many ways, the iPad allows Magda to reconnect her family with their roots in Margaritas. Magda gives walking tours around the village, especially during festivals like the \u003ca href=\"http://www.mexconnect.com/articles/1103-posadas-pastorelas-and-nacimientos\">Christmas Posadas\u003c/a>. But even the day-to-day seems more present than it might otherwise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Like, right now, some of the trees are blooming, and they have a little fruits. And I just told [Jorge], ‘Look, look at what I’m eating.’ Or, the people is passing by, I say, ‘Look. Say ‘hi’ to my husband.’ They say, ‘This is your husband? -- 'Hi, how you doing?' ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Magda and Jorge attend Mass together sometimes at the local church in Margaritas, \"Nuestra Senora de la Asuncion,\" or \"Our Lady of the Assumption.\" Magda got permission from the priest to have Jorge join her, via her iPad, when the church Wi-Fi is working.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'During the day, I can smile, I can talk to people, I can dance and everything. But when the darkness come and I have to go to my room, this is the hardest part, because there is nobody … nobody there.'\u003ccite> Maria Magdalena Ortega Delgado\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Jorge is in a \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rondalla\">rondallas\u003c/a> group, a Spanish guitar group. He plays for Magda and records songs for her birthday. I asked him to play something for her, and he chose a piece from a song called \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sct0-7rs2zY\">“Yolanda,” \u003c/a>famously sung by Cuban singer-songwriter \u003ca href=\"http://www.milanespablo.com/\">Pablo Milanes\u003c/a>. Musicians performed this song at Jorge and Magda's wedding 21 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Jorge strummed the guitar and sang, \u003cem>“Te amo, te amo, eternamente te amo,”\u003c/em> Magda joined him, singing in unison through cyberspace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our souls are together,\" she tells him. \"I know when you are sick; I can feel that. I know when you are sad; I can feel that, too. And I know that you do the same thing. And I just want to tell you that. It is not easy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then they sign off, like they do every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jorge: “I love you, Mama.”\u003cbr>\nMagda: “I love you too, Papa. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Imagine you can’t be near the person you love. It could be a long-distance relationship or a military deployment. Jorge Arreola and his wife, Maria Magdalena Ortega Delgado, are three years into a 10-year separation. Magda -- everyone calls her Magda -- overstayed a tourist visa, and U.S. immigration law requires her to stay out of the country for a decade before she can apply to return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout alignright\">\n\u003cimg class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http://u.s.kqed.net/2015/09/14/LITDApodcastlogo.jpg\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/love-in-the-digital-age/id1037051180?mt=2\">Subscribe in iTunes\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Don't miss an episode of 'Love in the Digital Age'\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Jorge is a U.S. citizen, who lives in San Jose and works as an equipment engineer at \u003ca href=\"http://amphenol-sensors.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Amphenol Sensors\u003c/a> in Fremont. He tries to present a brave face, but he grieves.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Half of myself is over there with her, and half of herself is over here with me.'\u003ccite> Jorge Arreola \u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Sitting in his home office, surrounded by books and photos of Magda, he says, \"I try to keep myself busy. That way, we don’t think about this situation, but it’s hard. You can get to a depression, by just thinking over and over and over, about the same thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jorge and Magda live much of their marriage in a third place they have created online, using their phone, Facebook Messenger and FaceTime. When I visited him, we connected with Magda on FaceTime so we could all talk together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Magda, who is 44, went back to a village called \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/place/Margaritas,+Jal.,+Mexico/@20.4543837,-102.4739238,9z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x842ec879bc58e2d1:0x647cb0a4b9a7cef4\">Margaritas\u003c/a>, population 3,000, about 80 miles east of Guadalajara . She grew up there, and she still has relatives there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jorge, 47, does come to visit, every two or three months. Magda often meets him in Tijuana, where Jorge was born, or he flies to Guadalajara, a 3½- to four-hour journey from San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How Magda Got in Trouble With Immigration Authorities\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Magda's father immigrated to the United States legally from Mexico in 1992. Over the years, she visited periodically. When Magda was around 20, she visited and overstayed her tourist visa. Then she left the U.S. for Mexico and returned “without inspection,” which means what you think it means: She crossed the border illegally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nDespite all that, Magda expected to gain papers under her family’s application for green cards, which they eventually acquired. What Magda didn’t realize was that her cross-border travel put her in a precarious situation following \u003ca href=\"http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/free-books/fiance-marriage-visa-book/chapter2-4.html\">a 1996 change in immigration law\u003c/a>, designed to penalize people who spent time in the U.S. illegally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She unwittingly further complicated her status with the U.S. government when she married Jorge in 1994\u003cstrong>,\u003c/strong> after meeting him at a church in San Jose. She was no longer her father's child in the eyes of immigration authorities, and no longer qualified to be included in her father's immigration package.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10648551\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16386_Jorge_Magda_wedding-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10648551 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16386_Jorge_Magda_wedding-qut-800x538.jpg\" alt=\"Jorge and Magda's wedding, 21 years ago.\" width=\"800\" height=\"538\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16386_Jorge_Magda_wedding-qut-800x538.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16386_Jorge_Magda_wedding-qut-400x269.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16386_Jorge_Magda_wedding-qut.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jorge and Magda's wedding, 21 years ago.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Given that Jorge has been a U.S. citizen since 2008, Jorge and Magda figured they could adjust her immigration status. But after years of attempting to do just that, Magda lost her appeal. Here’s an excerpt from the 2011 Board of Immigration Appeals decision against her:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>“The respondent is ineligible for a grant of adjustment of status. … The Immigration Judge additionally concluded that the respondent did not satisfy the 10-year continuous physical presence requirement for cancellation of removal.”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This spelled big trouble for the couple. Magda would have to leave the U.S. for 10 years before she could reapply for entry legally as Jorge’s wife. Magda left voluntarily in April 2012, rather than be arrested and deported by the authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ironically, when she was in the U.S., Magda worked as the associate producer on an independent film called \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2015/05/02/an-undocumented-student-finds-unlikely-support-in-sin-visa/\">\"Sin Visa.\"\u003c/a> It showcases life in California as an undocumented person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Margaritas, Jalisco\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10651125\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16437_Margaritas-street-view-with-church-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10651125\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16437_Margaritas-street-view-with-church-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Street view of Margaritas, Jalisco, with Our Lady of the Assumption Church at the end.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16437_Margaritas-street-view-with-church-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16437_Margaritas-street-view-with-church-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16437_Margaritas-street-view-with-church-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16437_Margaritas-street-view-with-church-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16437_Margaritas-street-view-with-church-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16437_Margaritas-street-view-with-church-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Street view of Margaritas, Jalisco, with Our Lady of the Assumption Church at the end. \u003ccite>(Fernando Aguila Navarro)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s like a small village,\" Magda explains . \"Very simple people, but with a very warm and big heart. You are welcome to come anytime you want to!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jorge thought about moving to Mexico to be with Magda, but he makes good money in his career here. If he left, he figured he’d be fixing computers at a corner store in Mexico, earning peanuts. Jorge needs the money: The couple has incurred legal debt over the years, trying to adjust Magda's immigration status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's another reason. Jorge and Magda don't have children, but their two young goddaughters live in the Bay Area. He and Magda are very close to the girls, who sometimes travel with him to see her in Mexico. He says it would be very hard on the girls if both he and Magda left. Her forced departure is already hard on both of their families. Their former home in Milpitas was the social center where relatives gathered for major holidays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Staying connected\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our house, it was like a grandma’s house. Because all my family, all my sisters and brothers, we get together for the feasts, for everything, for the holy days,\" Magda says. \"Now that I’m here, it’s kind of hard. So, last year, I was in charge to do the blessing during the Thanksgiving and Christmas. Well, since I was not with them, I used the iPad and I was able to see each other and the food and I sent my bless[ing] for the food.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She adds: \"I love pumpkin pie.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In many ways, the iPad allows Magda to reconnect her family with their roots in Margaritas. Magda gives walking tours around the village, especially during festivals like the \u003ca href=\"http://www.mexconnect.com/articles/1103-posadas-pastorelas-and-nacimientos\">Christmas Posadas\u003c/a>. But even the day-to-day seems more present than it might otherwise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Like, right now, some of the trees are blooming, and they have a little fruits. And I just told [Jorge], ‘Look, look at what I’m eating.’ Or, the people is passing by, I say, ‘Look. Say ‘hi’ to my husband.’ They say, ‘This is your husband? -- 'Hi, how you doing?' ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Magda and Jorge attend Mass together sometimes at the local church in Margaritas, \"Nuestra Senora de la Asuncion,\" or \"Our Lady of the Assumption.\" Magda got permission from the priest to have Jorge join her, via her iPad, when the church Wi-Fi is working.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'During the day, I can smile, I can talk to people, I can dance and everything. But when the darkness come and I have to go to my room, this is the hardest part, because there is nobody … nobody there.'\u003ccite> Maria Magdalena Ortega Delgado\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Jorge is in a \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rondalla\">rondallas\u003c/a> group, a Spanish guitar group. He plays for Magda and records songs for her birthday. I asked him to play something for her, and he chose a piece from a song called \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sct0-7rs2zY\">“Yolanda,” \u003c/a>famously sung by Cuban singer-songwriter \u003ca href=\"http://www.milanespablo.com/\">Pablo Milanes\u003c/a>. Musicians performed this song at Jorge and Magda's wedding 21 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Jorge strummed the guitar and sang, \u003cem>“Te amo, te amo, eternamente te amo,”\u003c/em> Magda joined him, singing in unison through cyberspace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our souls are together,\" she tells him. \"I know when you are sick; I can feel that. I know when you are sad; I can feel that, too. And I know that you do the same thing. And I just want to tell you that. It is not easy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then they sign off, like they do every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jorge: “I love you, Mama.”\u003cbr>\nMagda: “I love you too, Papa. 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