“A family trips and stumbles across 3,000 miles of Texas.”
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Featuring stories about celebrity look-alikes, siblings, desert living, philanthrocapitalism, and life inside a legal brothel.
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Consider the Sister
“Amy Wallace has spent two decades guarding the human her brother was—against a world that prefers David Foster Wallace as a puzzle.”
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I Want to Live Like Costco People
“Some of us are crying in H Mart; some of us are mourning in Costco.”
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All My Dad’s Sons
“At a very young age, I learned a lot about how life can go wrong. It put things into perspective, even if that perspective was a little warped.”
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‘It’s Super Weird, Super Odd, Super Rare’: Meet The Twins Who Have Different Dads
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‘It’s super weird, super odd, super rare’: meet the twins who have different dads
When DNA test results shattered everything Lavinia and Michelle thought they knew about their family history, they also revealed something never before documented in the UK.”
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“You Are Always Just a Kiss Away From Me My Beautiful Boy.”
“Their family members vanished near Mass. Ave. They won’t stop searching.”
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Sea of Nightmares: My Son Died Climbing. Now, I Wrestle With ‘What If.’
“The questions, hypotheticals, and past haunting me as the father of Balin Miller, who fell to his death in October.”
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The Age of Dinosaurs
“Ruminating on extinction, under the slanted tutelage of my child, felt like a responsible thing to do.”
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Where Duolingo Falls Down: How I Learned to Speak Welsh With My Mother
“Once violently defended from extinction, Welsh is still a part of daily life. By learning my family’s language, I hoped to join their conversation.”