It seems like, whenever I hear a writer talk about how unsentimental he is (and it usually is a he), something pretty schmaltzy is bound to follow. If a macho intensifier ("relentlessly," "unflinchingly") is used to modify "unsentimental," then get ready for pure treacle.
Don't worry about un/sentimental. Just write interesting or affecting words, and deal with it in revision. What you resist persists.
An immaculate cremation
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Ruth Hsu would have enjoyed the irony. Lilith and I were going to attend an
informal ceremony for Ruth at the top of the cemetery, looking down on the
cre...
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