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An (unmorbid!) rumination.
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I should begin with how I loved him, in what manner, to what degree, with what kind of incomprehension.
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After I had taught you German for a semester, you gave me a lime with your phone number written on it — a pick-up lime — and asked me out for ice cream.
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On making a coat.
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The NBA season has started, which means I now live with someone whose entire reason for being is to follow the movements of a bunch of extremely tall…
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17 August – Claire Saffitz’s Malted “Forever” Brownies. “Another brownie?” says Rhys, who has sampled brownies made from at least eight different…
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Hello hello, and how are you? I am writing this from home, where we have been in lockdown now for about six weeks.
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He dislikes being complimented on things he has not worked for.
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I was sewing a new dress when I found out, white flowers on a dark blue ground.
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On Saturdays at the library, we water the plants. We keep an enormous lime green plastic watering can under the kitchen sink for this purpose, which…
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I feel a perverse sense of FOMO when I think of London now. I’m strangely sorry to be missing out on a defining collective experience, one that everyone…
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This week on a cooking podcast, I listened to Yo-Yo Ma speaking about the role of the performing musician. “Whenever I perform, I think I am throwing a…
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