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Like the ability to buy a house or say the word “cancer” or get out of an unhealthy romantic relationship before it spits right in your eye.

“I never want anybody to say the word ‘kimchi.'”

“I never want anybody to say the word ‘kimchi’ or to feature it, because it’s just such a cliched thing to talk about kimchi like that is the one representative thing for Koreans.

“Jensen is extremely … if I say the word ‘gifted,’ you’ll be like, ‘okay’ — but she truly is a gifted individual,” says Patrice Rushen, the veteran jazz and R&B musician who mentored McRae as chair of the Thornton School’s popular music program.

But is having to say the word “genital clamps” with complete and total earnestness not the very definition of paying your dues?