Tag: relationships
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Like Skydiving
A friend recently let me borrow Notes on Heartbreak by Annie Lord, a memoir moving back and forth between Annie’s five year relationship with her partner, Joe, and its aftermath. I recently had a short, but personally meaningful, relationship end. Something at the end of her novel (not truly a spoiler) had me tearing up…
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Wellies
A theme keeps resurfacing in conversations of late. Of things not being as they seem. Our newest roommate wished to treat us and some of her friends to a carbonara night at the flat. She went well out of her way to gather fresh, traditional ingredients, so of course we all obliged. As we sat…
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Limpet Syndrome
It’s funny. Sadistically speaking. For a full two months, I was traveling non-stop, navigating time changes and cancellations, suffocating my emotional unrest, and even taming the self-imposed responsibility that I must do justice towards the TSW community. A lot on the shoulders; a lot on the mind. In all of that, my health barely wavered.…
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Breathing
I stumbled across a quote yesterday that said “I want somebody to love me.” I immediately thought about Josephine March from Little Women. It’s the scene where she is pacing in the attic of her childhood home, her mother watching. Upon learning that Laurie is accompanying her sister back home, Jo clings to her loneliness…