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A journalist navigates a world forever changed by her traumatic brain injury.
Nathan
Language lessons with an extraordinary ape.
Cocooning
“Every testimony, every coming-out story, attempts a transformation of life. But narration is not life itself, exactly, or its transformation; it is a cocooning.”
Girl Genius
She will grow up and leave me and yet never leave me; she will be mine forever, a being I shaped.
The Buddy System
There is nothing quite like it. Surfing is a way of being connected to a deeper deep, an older old.

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