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What happens when you get too close to my bench (Newsletter #1)
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Two of us crouched on the small balcony, gazing up at stars forming in the night sky of Chiang Mai. Light rain started drizzling down across the horizon like it was in sync, the way it apparently does most nights of the year there. I watched Mark close his eyes slowly and let the…

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Several years ago on a balcony in the sun, I asked a German friend about the war. We leaned back on deck chairs and coffee in hand, watching the morning…
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I'm clumsy." "How clumsy? I mean, people are pretty clumsy in general." "Yes. But I'm the most clumsy a clumsy person could possibly be." "I don't know…
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"Like, are you sitting at the same table?" The barista asked, uninterested in the reply. She glanced behind her, pretending to survey the queue for the…

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