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Anthropological Field Notes
Dear Professor: I wanted to give you a quick update on my field research.
It’s been challenging, but I look forward to submitting my thesis, completing my master’s in anthropology, and enjoying the many lucrative career opportunities it will open up for me.
As you warned, it can be hard out here to establish relationships with the natives, who can indeed be described as “bitter clingers” and “deplorables.” But this morning I marched boldly into a gathering place called Irma’s Diner, overlooking the name’s calculated insult to the indigenous people from whom Irma had stolen the land.