relationships
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At the Museum
I have seldom visited a museum when I didn’t return home with a feeling I had not had when I departed.
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FUNNY WOMEN #125: My Almost Valentine
Also, when I said I don’t like Mexican food, I only meant that I dislike the way it tastes in my mouth and the way I feel after consuming it.
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The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Chloe Caldwell
Chloe Caldwell talks about her new novella Women, gender nectar, break-up grief, and her impatience with analyzing the fiction/nonfiction divide.
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Waved Albatross
How do we make the good thoughts stay? Can we make them stay? It’s so hard to keep in mind the slivers of time that change our lives for the better.
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Fat and Sexy
My curves are not in all the right places but they still bring men to their knees. This, despite the fact that I have been told that because I am fat I can’t expect to be loved, desired, to have…
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Songs of Our Lives: Look Blue Go Purple’s “Circumspect Penelope”
Distance always seduced me—distance from whatever was most familiar, especially myself—but the difficulties in achieving such remove vexed me.
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Paper Birds
Clearing those pages plain, I’d make time fall away and distance shorten impossibly, fold upon fold, until the page was no longer a record of our histories but an origami swan.
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Lines Like Loss, Like Leaving
I know you understand me when I tell you this. I know you understand dead of night. Tell me what lines you’ve read so I know how to imagine you. Tell me who is gone. Tell me if you, like…
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I Thought I Could Just Be a Passenger
I have spent my twenties texturing this city with memory; I have made it a vessel for my pleasures and my pain.
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The Book of Love
“For a certain sort of person, sharing a book can be as intimate and exhilarating as sharing a kiss,” writes Helen Rosner in her moving essay about books, love and relationships over at BuzzFeed Books.
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Love and Hate
Sometimes we can’t help but blame the people we need for making us need them. In an essay for the New York Times’s Modern Love column, Rumpus contributor Anna March writes about the fear of losing someone she depends on: Reading online…
