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We Don’t Deserve This
… me; they behold only themselves.  Never once have I been complimented on the way my glinting veneer catches the … goes now. And don’t expect me to take you back if someone points out during your dissertation defense that you were … I could become a group text and organize a picnic for you ladies, rather than keep vibrating my way through this …
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Memory Wars
… stores and Caffé Nero outlets. But the past hovers. “Come to the city center after 6 p.m. , and everything is … in 1972 at the height of the conflict, is a shiny Liverpool FC store, with nothing to remember the two young women … start firing their machine guns on the Divis flats.” Two died in the volley:  a nine-year-old boy and a Catholic …
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Second Wave
… Jhumpa Lahiri’s fiction, drank too much coffee. Through the coming days and nights, I lost the will to read, to sleep or … the Semal trees on the roadside, perched on the hills. Also called silk cotton trees, they blossom at the end of … non-COVID-19 deaths, including ninety-six workers who died on trains. As I sat at home, helpless and angry at the …
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The Truths of Antarctica
… research vessel turned Antarctic tourist ship Akademic Shokalskiy set a new record, though not by much: less than … They build nests out of pebbles, and they growl if you come too close. Adélie neighbors shamelessly steal one … froze instantly on our GORE-TEX, crusting us white like bodies left out in the cold.    3. Depth charts don’t exist …
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The Other Chile (Cecilia & Patricia)
… a little bit of water left in a bottle. Because if people complain? Oof. Even if they miss a receipt that maybe they … stay open-minded, but they don’t come to Chile as professionals, they’re not architects or engineers. They are workers … with for the rest of my life, and if we’re separated or he died I don’t think I’ll ever marry again. But the only love …
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Fossil Combing
… Fossil Combing A #VQRTrueStory Essay   1. “You’ve come in the worst … always taken Mary and Joseph with him to hunt for fossils, died in 1810. At a time when the salubrious effect of the … night, at the St. Michael’s Churchyard, Natalie Manifold points out the single tombstone engraved with the names of …
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