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I became an only child at four and a half.

Before that I had a sister, a year older. My mother crashed our car. My sister died.

I grew up in a house with two adults who had lost a child, being the remaining child, learning to occupy myself, learning that connection was fragile and could disappear without warning.

Between The Crash & my already-unusual br...


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My Fitbit started buzzing at me a year ago. “It looks like you’re exercising.”

Yeah. No shit. I’m walking. I know I’m exercising. I’m the one doing it.

I didn’t ask for this notification. I don’t want this notification. Nobody wants to be told what they’re already doing. And yet, here we are.

I was annoyed for about thirty seconds. Then I started thinking ab...


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