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understand how. So I read his journals.”
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The iconic comic strip may seem simple, but its central metaphor has proven impossible to replicate.
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“Surgeons promised to make me whole. No one asked what I wanted.”
“On Octavia Butler, the L.A. fires, and the uses and misuses of the things that cannot be recovered.”
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