Maybe this is why people are obsessed with twins: they have a sense of loss, something missing, someone missing.
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My Love Poems Are the Most Palestinian Thing About Me
“Hopeless romantic”—at least in this context—is an oxymoron born of outsider cynicism—hope is inherent in love.
My Body, Ms. Bey, LV
It should cost a billion to look this good—to look this much like yourself, ever changing.
Have You Ever: Mammogram Edition
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Bonus Child
It’s easier to trash fairytales and racism than it is to face the simplicity of my conundrum: that I’ve inherited the defunct reality of a stranger’s manifest desire.
