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Lauren Westerfield

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Seb Som is a filmmaker based in New York City. His short film Mama Said Sardine Baby premiered at the 2011 TriBeCa Film Festival. He has interviewed the likes of Joe Swanberg and Giuseppe Andrews and will be having his first solo show in May at One Art Space TriBeCa.
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Twenty-Seven

For two days, I fight the story welling up in me, denying the itch of the burn, the angry redness biting at my skin. And then I wake up the third day and say to myself, “My mom was raped when she was my age. When she was twenty-seven.”
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