work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context 8223,"",Reading,2017-07-27 20:57:23 UTC,"""My emotions are like a Ping-Pong ball being bounced back and forth between the players,"" said Mrs. Borland, who, with her husband, owns a karate school in Pleasant Valley, N.Y., and whose younger daughter, Amelia, 2, is receiving chemotherapy for leukemia.

""For months it's been: 'Here's a bill, we'll vote. No, we won't. Now it will change. Maybe not. Will that one person vote or not?' Except that for us, this is not a game.""",,25082,"","""'My emotions are like a Ping-Pong ball being bounced back and forth between the players,' said Mrs. Borland, who, with her husband, owns a karate school in Pleasant Valley, N.Y., and whose younger daughter, Amelia, 2, is receiving chemotherapy for leukemia.""","",2017-07-27 20:57:23 UTC,""