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- Author: Mary Harrington from Mary Harrington
- Full Title: Don’t Let the Vampire In
- Category: #articles
- It was actually the Murphy post about fatherhood that prompted me to think about this, because I nearly got sucked into it. On the cusp of posting a reply, it hit me that the dividend of ego satisfaction I’d get, from being mildly self-righteous to this guy I’ve never met, would almost certainly be outstripped by the emotional cost of letting the whole bad-tempered discourse live rent-free in my head, even for a few hours.