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Sophie Lucido Johnson| Longreads | April 2019 | 9 minutes (2,226 words)
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Sophie Lucido Johnson is a Chicago-based writer and illustrator whose work has been featured in the New York Times, the New Yorker, the Guardian, and elsewhere. Her first book, an illustrated memoir, is called Many Love.
Editors: Sari Botton and Katie Kosma
