“Maybe it’s only when you don’t know what you are listening for that you find what you were waiting all along to discover.”
Diane Mehta
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week we are sharing stories from Janell Ross, Jude Isabella, Arthur Asseraf, Lex Pryor, and Diane Mehta.
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‘Move forward. Flap around a little!’ How learning to swim in my 50s set me free
“My body and my confidence were failing me. I was told swimming would make me fit and strong-minded. But first I had to navigate the aggravation of the slow lane.”
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This edition features stories from Craig Silverman and Bianca Fortis, Kimon de Greef, Tom Vanderbilt, Diane Mehta, and George Stiffman.
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“I have no status inside or outside any clear borders unless I consider my mother’s uterus my original country.”