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Going Home

Alienating Emotional Relational Talk with Brecht-olage

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My dad is the type of person who expects me to call once a week, preferably on Sunday after church. During these calls, I can expect a myriad of topics that center around two things: his concern that I live so far away, and politics. Specifically, he seems to receive all of his political news from the darkest depths of the alt-right cesspool.

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Sandra L. Pensoneau-Conway Tony E. Adams Derek M. Bolen

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Ivey, C.L. (2017). Going Home. In: Pensoneau-Conway, S.L., Adams, T.E., Bolen, D.M. (eds) Doing Autoethnography. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6351-158-2_11

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