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Fragments of Humanity is a place to collect the tiny fragments of the collective story that makes us human.
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- Sep 30, 2026
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- Jul 27, 2026
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Guarded (opens the original)
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Is memory true? (opens the original)
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, written by , reads literature, philosophy, and art for what they can tell us about the inner life. , written by , reads literature alongside psychology and neuroscience for the same reason. We keep arriving at the same questions from opposite doors, which is how the two of us came to write together.In our first collaboration<spa
Sit here. (opens the original)
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When my dad entered hospice last fall, I realized how little I knew about dying. I wrote this for anyone who has walked through a similar loss, and for anyone who hasn’t yet.One note before you read: the essay describes the physical process of dying in close detail, including my father’s final hours. If your grief is fresh, those passages may be hard.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yrOB!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2
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