“Navigating romance—with people or with places—is always fraught when you’re an outsider.”
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Active Recall
“As of his sixth birthday next month, he will have 2,462 seconds, his entire life compressed as I wanted to remember it, into approximately 41 minutes.”
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“Deliciousness, I discovered, was more filling than deprivation.”