In her paper Owning up and lowering down: The power of apology, Adrienne M Martin writes:
Apologies are strange. They are, in a certain sense, very small. An apology is just a gesture—a set of words, a physical posture, perhaps a gift. But an apology can also be very powerful—this power is implicit in the facts that it can be difficult to offer an apology and that, when we are wronged, we may want an apology very much. More, even if we have been severely wronged, we are sometimes willing to forgive or pardon the wrongdoer if we receive a sincere apology.
Last week, I asked for an apology.
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