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and it's so deserving

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Leigh Bardugo // Walker Percy

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from The New York Times

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my fist has always been clenched around the handle of an invisible suitcase.

i am always ready to leave. there is not a single room in this world where i belong.

fatima aamer bilal, excerpt from moony moonless sky's 'i am an observer, but not by choice.'

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"I wanted to be unforgettable. Indelible. I wanted to haunt their hearts and minds—to be everywhere and nowhere, spectacular and out of reach. Only in the chaos did it dawn on me. Being remembered is not the same as being missed."

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Apparently this needs to be said so

Forgetting things is morally neutral! Memory issues are morally neutral!

You're not a bad person if you...

forget things quickly

forget people

can't remember entire stages of your life

can't remember important things

can remember some things very well and forget other things all the time

can't remember things (or anything!) about your interests

forget to eat, sleep, go to the bathroom, etc

forget to reply to texts

remember things and immediately forget them again

can't remember birthdays, events, etc

frequently answer 'I forgot' to questions

can't retain new information

forget things you used to know

only remember things when it's too late

have vague, distorted and/or unreliable memories

depend on others to know how an event you were in played out

have other symptoms that are worsened by memory issues and vice versa

... and anything else I might have missed!

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— Arundhati Roy, The Cost of Living

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Gustave Flaubert, “Letter to Louise Colet.”

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Adonis, from a poem titled “Unintended Worship,” featured in If Only the Sea Could Sleep

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Clarice Lispector, from "Too Much of Life Complete Chronicles," publ. in 2022

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Renovation of a Milan apartment by design firm Studio Peregalli and architect Laura Sartori Rimini. Simon Upton photo in Elle Decor.

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Kim Addonizio, from Lucifer at the Starlite: Poems; “Feeling Sexy”

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Margaret Atwood, “The Blind Assassin.”

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Elise Paschen, from "Trapeze," featured in Leaning toward Light