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Where Can I Lay Down the Weight of My Desires?
The mythmaking oracles have fallen out of style.
Frances Ha: Female Adulthood As Portrayed In The Moving Image
Sometimes, it’s not that we refuse to grow up. It’s that we can’t stop it.
Eat Your Memories
Part food review. Part reflection on the ties that bind.
To The Restaurant That Ruined Mother’s Day Surprise: I love You.
Instead of “I love you” we say, “I bought you your favorite snack.”
The Courage to Suffer: Viktor Frankl’s Formula for a Meaningful Life
The love that Frankl writes about isn’t bound by physicality or mired by the desire
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