By: Marine Yanikian-Sutton I was a freshman at USC double majoring in Psychology and English. The Psych professor stood before a hundred of us and held up a rubber band. "What does this represent?" he asked. Silence filled the room. He answered his own rhetorical question. "This is a representation of relationships. Once formed, they need to be flexible. They need to be able to stretch, change, expand, and retract." "What do you mean? If you overstretch it, it will snap," another freshman said. The professor held up a stick and continued, "Exactly. If your relationship can't change over time, if you can't walk down different paths and reconnect when needed, if it is as inflexible as a stick, it will break. That being the case, if you overstretch it, it will snap," with that he snapped the twig which could be heard as far back as the last row. When I met Ryan December of my freshman year I held on to what I had heard about ...
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