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January 2024

Consider Seals
“ Let us go then, you and I,/When the evening is spread out against the sky/Like a patient etherized upon a table;” - T.S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J…
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Allison Gruber
Sorry, I’m a little late.
Last week, I said this post would focus on surgery/surgeries. I also said I would write every week. The lie detector test determined that was a lie, and…
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Allison Gruber
The Most Important
“Who’s the most important person in the world?” I was seated at a table in an office with a view of Sedona’s red rocks, and I had just been told I had…
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Allison Gruber

November 2023

Good Spirit
TW: Long Read
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Allison Gruber

August 2023

Barbie Feminism
Long Read; Spoilers; Chance of repetition
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Allison Gruber
Sinéad
There were adults around that night, and I remember little gasps after Sinéad O’Connor’s performance of Bob Marley’s “War.” Unlike Teen Me, they had not…
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Allison Gruber

July 2023

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