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Amy-Jill Levine and Ben Witherington’s dialogue is most illuminating when the co-authors disagree.

You were that kind of guy. The kind to think
That you were better than the others. That’s
The curse, you see. I knew that you would blame
Circumstances and the atmosphere.
That’s how it is: You are what you most fear.
You think you know your shining, private name:
You don’t. It is the language of your secrets.
You couldn’t believe that you’d deny. To think