Tag: relationships
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The People We Become For Different Places
There is a version of me that only used to exist in my grandmother’s house. She didn’t know that, of course, but she had met a girl who spoke a little slower, laughed more freely, and didn’t once check her phone at the dinner table. That girl ate two extra rotis without guilt and sat…
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Outgrowing People Without Hating Them
There is this one person I think about sometimes. We were inseparable for years, the kind of close where you stop needing to explain context because they already have all of it. They knew which version of a story I was telling based on who was in the room. They knew when I said I…
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Live While You Still Can
I came across a post recently that said, “You’re going to be 24 for 365 days. And you could die at 25.” It hit me in a way few things do. We live as if time is infinite, like the people we love will always be there, like our youth will last forever. But the…
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The Side of Bookstagram I Wish We Talked About More
I don’t say this lightly, but some days bookstagram breaks my heart a little. Not because I don’t love it. I really, really do. This space has held so much joy for me. It’s given me connection and creativity and moments that have made me feel like I belong to something special. But it’s also…
