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mindfulness & fear
this is what it is to be a woman
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memories of men, not god
"I didn't tell her how they all laughed and pointed at my face, how it took me a few seconds to absorb the backhand of their words."
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Greg
"He started reading his Bible more after the first time we made out."
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an old friend
"Is this how you breathe?"
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hold me?
"Paper towels burn fast. Skin does, too."
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a new job
"I almost lost this apartment last year, back when I cried at food banks because I didn’t know how it worked, back when strangers hugged me because I…
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I had a brother once
"My brother became someone I talked about in the past tense as if he was that neighbor boy we all knew growing up."
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Alice says
"She says it’s rare to be able to get close to a dolmen and hug it, so we’re lucky."
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my biggest fear
"The chances are pretty good that I'll lose my memory."
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omens
"Seven wild boars emerge from the forest curtain on our left, one after the other, the babies in the back."
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five
"Things happen in the silence if we let them."
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