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A promotional poster for Damages (FX) |
*** Warning: This post contains spoilers for the pilot episode of Damages
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When I first quit law, I avoided watching any movies or TV shows
involving lawyers or police procedure (since I mainly practiced criminal
law).
It was a painful reminder not only
of what I’d left behind but what would never be.
I guess you could call it nostalgia for a
past that never was.
Before and during
law school, I would watch
The Practice
and
Law & Order, and feel hopeful
about the adventure on which I was about to embark.
It was sort of like when I was a preteen,
flipping through
Sassy magazine and
eagerly anticipating all of the wonderful changes that would occur once I
finally became a glamorous young woman like the ones depicted in all the tampon
and deodorant ads (which were peppered in between articles about teen suicide
and my favorite young heartthrobs).
The reality
never quite lived up to the hype.
Much
like being a lawyer, being a teenager mostly involved
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