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Holding ourselves together while the news keeps breaking

Grieving and raging over the floods and more with my friend Pooja Lakshmin

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Jul 18, 2025
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“Miranda—The Tempest" by John William Waterhouse (1916)

The worst news my mom received from overnight camp in the Adirondacks was a letter I scrawled late one night from Raquette Lake:

Mom, I hate it here. The girls in my bunk are snobby. They say Westchester, Pennsylvania isn’t the “real Westchester.” I’ll be waiting for you on Visiting Day with my duffe…

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