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“I will never believe that one negates the other and that my experience of that person, I don’t get to keep and cherish,” Watson said.

This approach should not be confused with toxic positivity, which is when people only look for the positive while negating any negative emotions.

“These initiatives really negate and mitigate the very pervasive idea of seeing immigrants as permanent foreigners in this country only because of their color or language,” Syed said.

They seemed left for dead after Clayton Kershaw gave up four runs in the bottom of the first, immediately negating Freeman’s RBI line-drive single in the first.

Her story is a rags-to-riches tale, and her offenses don’t negate the struggles of her past.