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Like many a self-respecting tween, Melody Brooks has a thing or two to say about this and that, and a need to be heard.

“People feel very strongly about this. And that's not a political divide. It's a sort of individual divide. I know this first hand because obviously I looked at every single assisted suicide case for five years that was investigated.”

“I’m used to imagining what a keyboard part would be, and this and that. Now, they’re all right there.”

A politics that trades incessantly on disdaining “white male” this and that and on hyping “toxic masculinity” is as self-defeating as a purportedly “anti-racist” politics that ends up hyping racial identity itself.

"My comfort has come from my family and from Alex’s family, and as a very tight unit, we’re finding our way to get through this – and that’s what we shall do."