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giving up on September (opens the original)
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hi loves, The F train was delayed almost enough for me to download hinge again. In the lonely fault of my lagged transit, I remembered how single I was, and it hit me all at once.I was told in April by a psychic that September would be the month that I found my future person. This has driven me to do anything possible to live out this timeline. To not let her down, to not let my hope down, to not let myself down. However, in the midst of this very specific omen of achieving possible love, I’ve l
a subway love letter (opens the original)
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hi loves,As I took a subway route that makes me feel like a veteran New Yorker, I found myself feeling extremely lucky. Lucky to live a life where I can romanticize my commute.The tires of the L train screech while coming to a stop at 1st Avenue and I habitually scrunch my face at the unsettling sound that my ears wish they could unhear. Time to filter in like sardines into, ironically, a tin box. This is the inner making of a New York day. The seats of this particular subway line have a color I
future forward (opens the original)
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hi loves, In the comedown of my summer travels, I now have a full realm of reflection following me. With August’s winding end, I realized how much of it I used to escape. However, within the escape, I always had the same sense of familiarity that a home can bring. Mostly because I understood I had home within me through it all.Whether it was Madeira or Michigan, I found myself missing the person I was running away from. That person being, the one I’ve become within the past year. The confident,
alas, we dance (opens the original)
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hi loves,. Since I’ve come back from Poetry Camp, it feels as if I’ve come back to this alternative universe, one I had to learn how to settle back into. One that feels like the restart of my life. A chapter opening up in the book I’ve taken this year to write.Five days in the woods and fifty campers later, I left with one key feeling: nourishment. I was nourished by the vulnerability of strangers, from the art heard and felt hitting me from all forms, from the trees and losing gravity in a hamm
finding your peace (opens the original)
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hi loves, New York has been welcoming me back with its warm, capable arms.I feel like I’ve completed the cycle of loving and hating it here, landing back in the place that feels somewhere in between. A feeling that usually resonates with feeling like a home.Not even a month ago, I felt myself resenting the life that I had built here. I felt, simply lost. Directionless and torn down by my choices instead of empowered by them. This lead to a non-thought out trip to Europe, my usual place of refuge
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