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Cinderella Was Born With a Snake Around Her Neck (opens the original)
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But I’m getting ahead of myself.A few months ago, on a small beach near Sao Paulo, I read a Brazilian folk tale over and over while my relationship with my daughter’s father was falling apart. (Or was it falling apart because I read the tale?)Anyway, I’d never heard of it before, but it sounded familiar, the way fairy tales often do. A girl with no one on her side at home. A magical helper who shows up when she’s most desperate. A party everyone goes to except her. Dresses that shouldn’t exist.
You Can't Be Born a Dragon (opens the original)
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The woody horizon in between his two rods keeps swaying left and right. That’s actually his body swaying in a fishing chair on his boat, but when he stares long enough across the river, it seems like he is still and the whole world tilts. The last low rays of sun, always so orange during this time of the year, turn his eyes into two dark lines. He keeps closing them from time to time. It feels so good to stay like that, almost half asleep, knowing his body will leap at the tiniest jerk of the ro
Actually, the Opposite (opens the original)
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I would take a shower so scalding that the skin on my shoulders and chest would turn red, because that was the only way I could stop my body from shivering. It was relentlessly hot outside. During those same months, I would ride my bike with my daughter, feeling her warm palms pressing against my bare waist, eyes fixed on those unbearably plump Brazilian hills, realizing I was smiling wide only by the sensation of my teeth drying in the wind. Many times, I would let myself sink down, all the way
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