"'My emotions are like a Ping-Pong ball being bounced back and forth between the players,' said Mrs. Borland, who, with her husband, owns a karate school in Pleasant Valley, N.Y., and whose younger daughter, Amelia, 2, is receiving chemotherapy for leukemia."
— Hoffman, Jan
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July 27, 2017
Metaphor
"'My emotions are like a Ping-Pong ball being bounced back and forth between the players,' said Mrs. Borland, who, with her husband, owns a karate school in Pleasant Valley, N.Y., and whose younger daughter, Amelia, 2, is receiving chemotherapy for leukemia."
Metaphor in Context
"My emotions are like a Ping-Pong ball being bounced back and forth between the players," said Mrs. Borland, who, with her husband, owns a karate school in Pleasant Valley, N.Y., and whose younger daughter, Amelia, 2, is receiving chemotherapy for leukemia.
"For months it's been: 'Here's a bill, we'll vote. No, we won't. Now it will change. Maybe not. Will that one person vote or not?' Except that for us, this is not a game."
"For months it's been: 'Here's a bill, we'll vote. No, we won't. Now it will change. Maybe not. Will that one person vote or not?' Except that for us, this is not a game."
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Jan Hoffman, "'I Am Totally Burned Out': Patients Watch Health Care Debate With Dread," The New York Times (July 27, 2017). <Link to NYTimes.com>
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07/27/2017
