How Being Nice Nearly Killed Me and Being Kind Saved My Life

Suzanna Quintana
7 min readJul 13, 2018
Me being nice to a rabid squirrel

My father was not one for compliments. Instead, he was a master at rolling up an insult into a thinly skinned sarcastic remark, much like a sushi chef wraps up the eel or crab or octopus in a layer of rice and seaweed so the consumer is not exactly sure what’s in the middle until after the first bite.

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Suzanna Quintana

My voice is my superpower. Editor-in-Chief of The Virago. Founder of The Online Sanctuary for Healing After Narcissistic Abuse. www.suzannaquintana.com