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unlike real hurricanes, heartbreak has no eye-- it offers no reprieve and it leaves no place to take shelter. We thus remain exposed, drenched, and miserable until it passes.
What does "reprieve " mean?
What does "drenched" mean?
Even more remarkable, given how personally familiar we are with the emotional devastation it causes, is that our societal attitudes toward heartbreak are so downright dismissive.
What does "is that our societal attitudes toward heartbreak are so downright dismissive" mean?