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Kusum, A. (18 November 19–) Letters to the editor, Dainik Bharat, Manoranjan Ravivar, p. 5-6. Editor’s note: Printed here unedited, this curious letter and its…
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My anxiety went through the roof once Adam left. The cage I had built to contain my fears collapsed – a cage formed from the…
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Enticed by stories of people who were flipping houses and making piles of money, I bought a run-down house on Montrose Avenue in spring 2006….
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At 23 let us count the things We have lost to the fire: We entered the Corporate We skipped the breakfast On Monday mornings We…
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We had all these kids uprooting trees. We provided chainsaws. They sent chips of bark flying, catcalled to one another, egging each other on. I’ve…
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My grandfather had died. I was four years old. I rested my elbows on my mother’s knees and gazed up at the strange men….
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Heavy snowfall at a military base, in a scorching Naples in August: where the Austrias, and after them the Borbons, and much later Maradona, and…