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My son masters himself as he masters the language. Every word he acquires means he’s internalizing how to navigate a new social interaction... --- snip --- Mankowski describes the difficulty of reporting abuse of any kind to a man like this: Occasionally someone manages to break through the insulation and deal with the responsible churchman himself. In this case, another maneuver is typically employed, one I tried to sketch eight years ago in an essay called “Tames in Clerical Life”: In one-on-one situations, tames in positions of authority will rarely flatly deny the validity of a complaint of corruption lodged...