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On leaving home (opens the original)
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It was a Wednesday morning, and I had to get up early; earlier than I wanted to and certainly earlier than I should have had to on a summer day before my freshman year of college. But Finland had to be escorted to the United Nations, or at least my 12-year-old neighbor had to be escorted 35 minutes by train to Berkeley for a Model UN summer camp. I didnât want to get up, but I didnât want to be late, so eventually I left my warm tangle of blankets and dragged myself in the aching cold, throu
Stonestown blues (opens the original)
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Daylight spirals down from the wide skylight, illuminating our table in the quiet eye of the bustling food court. Across from me, my friend is diligently at work on a lamb gyro while I gnaw on a toothpick I poached from a free sample of seasoned rice at Trader Joeâs. Itâs summertime, and the livinâs easy. Amused by something, Colby nudges me with her shoe. I follow her gaze to a nearby table where two girls sit opposite two guys. Judging by the braces, boba cups and backpacks by the bunch,
Love letter to a faraway home (opens the original)
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Itâs the summer after I graduated high school, and as Instagram would have me know, I should be leaning one casual shoulder against the dusty wall of a cathedral on a European street bathed in afternoon sun. I should be floating in turquoise waters and basking on the gleaming white bows of sailboats and dancing under purple club lights all night. In some miraculously lit marble-and-gold bathroom, Iâll meet my future self, the older one, the better one, waiting patiently halfway around the wo
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