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In 1998, I was 12 and at home a lot. Two years into a spree of hospitalizations for asthma, my lungs and I were not on the best terms. I was, by de facto, unschooled during this stretch, and time spread before me like an uninterrupted horizon, weekday and weekend indistinguishable.
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There is a passage in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn where Francie Nolan, the book’s protagonist, is described as the sum of many parts. A genetic and experiential palimpsest, Francie: