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Reader question: “She wears every thought and emotion on her sleeve…” What does this mean? My comments: She must be wearing a shirt that has very long sleeves. I’m kidding. Don’t take it literally. To say that she wears her thoughts and emotions on her sleeve is to say she shows her thoughts and emotions easily. In other words, she doesn’t try to hide them. She’s perhaps a simple, naïve and innocent person, and she is very lovely that way too. Or perhaps she’s just young. Young in the sense that she’s inexperienced and hasn’t acquired any sophistications of the world. A sophisticated politician, for instance, won’t show his, or her, emotions and true feelings. He is not supposed to cry whenever he wants to, for example. He probably won’t give you a straight answer any time you ask him a question, no matter how simple and straightforward that question may be. Say, for instance, you ask him whom he supports in the upcoming election and he’ll hesitate before very reluctantly say he’s undecided. Well, let’s wait and see then. Anyways, to wear one’s feelings and emotions on our sleeve is quite the opposite of being Machiavellian in the political realm. Machiavellian? Well, look it up or let me explain it another day. Now, let’s focus on and be satisfied with wearing our feelings and emotions on the sleeve. | 
