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The hospital
My mother’s health took a turn for the worse back in April. I keep meaning to write about it, but it’s not easy to tell the truth about what happened…
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Eva Talmadge
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This is what I do on Friday nights
The thing I like most about Philadelphia is the way people greet each other on the street. There’s never any question—you make eye contact and say hi…
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Eva Talmadge
Starting again
Last year I wrote about the challenges of writing when you’ve experienced a dislocation—of needing to have a sense of who you are and where you’re…
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Eva Talmadge
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I promise I'm not ghosting you
It’s just that I moved! To Philadelphia! And it’s been amazing! Also I’ve been buried in a heap of unpacked boxes, shelves not yet anchored to the…
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Eva Talmadge
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Keeping in touch
I feel like I should say more about the thirty-year-old boyfriend. He had a lot more going for him than a roach-free apartment. He’d just wrecked his…
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Eva Talmadge
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To Philadelphia
The week I graduated high school I moved into the apartment of my thirty-year-old boyfriend in Broward County and pretty much never went back home. I’ve…
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Masks are back :(
I wrote a thing about how it felt like the virus was over, how we all got to spend a minute feeling like this whole sad era of isolation and death was…
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Eva Talmadge
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