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When pressed on potential scandals that the president has taken great pains to publicly avoid, they almost universally turn to one tactic: ignore and attack the questioner.

In her statement, O’Neill said the old matching system was “not transparent or efficient enough to meet the needs of L.A.’s humanitarian crisis,” but acknowledged “growing pains” in the new one.

Rushing, meanwhile, never found a groove with his bat or his game-calling upon returning to the active roster a few days later, enduring more rookie growing pains that had plagued him all year.

"I'm going away for a while. It pains me to say I have to cancel everything for the foreseeable future," she wrote in an Instagram post on Tuesday.

She’s been stumbling, she says, in interviews, struggling to explain how she transformed one of the deepest pains of her life into art.