schadenfreude is when you gloat over someone else's misfortune ~ in this case, it would be writing a mock sympathy for someone you dislike to show them at their lowest, weakest point.

i don't think that's what the book intended, but that's how it comes off. yuck.

and i agree, Lee needs no pity. nor does he have anything to apologize for in my book. he did the best he could given his limited choices.

i'm back to reading research (which is in some ways better, some ways worse) ~ hahahahahaha.

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