I wanted to be in the mountains when it happened.
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Category: Dispatches from a Pandemic
Every day they would wash all surfaces with carbolic soap.
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A month will become a year.
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If I come across someone I make sure I am the first to ask about the screams.
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We hold our breath, if the road’s too narrow.
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We take an image of your chest each day.
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With ISIS defeated and the conflict in Syria dwindling, this should have been a bustling season.
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When she tires of reading, she comes over to burp in my ear.
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“I wonder where we go when we die,” Calvin once said to Hobbes.
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The earthquake woke us on the sixth day of the pandemic.
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Give me your germs
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Ritter and her companions rely on seals they shoot for survival.
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They’re always baking, said The Stand Mixer.
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Rural populations tend to have higher rates per capita of the elderly, disabled, and people with other health problems.
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A sedative floods her veins
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You know the one we mean.
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So many notes on a violin resonate with open strings that I aim to make as many notes as possible luminous
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When I borrowed his car, Rush Limbaugh’s scraping bass would erupt at full volume
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I tried folding up and taping a Siemens vacuum cleaner bag over my mouth and nose, something The Wirecutter said to use only under “desperate” circumstances.
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There are only two things I can think about right now. One, a Carolina wren…
Width of a queen-size mattress: five feet
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Last week, we had a grammar unit on expressing desires and regrets. I wish, we hope, if only.
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I am not unhappy in the house all day.
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I count the bodies and try to make sense of the math: 144,926 is not a lucky number.
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How many pictures? How much? How long?
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We had to wear N95 masks for days on end because the air was so polluted.
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I have proof that the days are there, one after the other
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I know how strangers react to a black woman walking a pit bull in a nice neighborhood.
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“As long as I come see the mountains, I’m okay,” was the idea their poetry expressed.
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Perhaps my biggest secret is that I have a doppelgänger.
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