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.
Lilith talks death and shunning with Uncle John
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Lilith and I walked to the entrance to the Temple this morning to see Uncle
John. Uncle John is younger than I am, but after he started calling me
aunty a...
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