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unrequitedness | arielle lok

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i mindlessly bike around montreal to memorize new streets & discover neighbourhoods, mentally jotting down cafes and bars i must return to try. some days i wake up with my calendar empty, so i hop on google maps and choose a random saved pin to bike several kilometres to. i sit alone at bars and sample glasses of wine with a book. i ask waiters for their favourite wine, sample it and wince, then ask them for their funkiest wine and that usually appeases my pallets. living life like this feels like a murakami novel, including how i somehow encounter multiple wandering well-fed cats, get cat-called on the daily, and smoke cigarettes with painted freckles on my face. but this isn’t the life i enjoy living; i undoubtedly live to have a higher purpose for others. i’ve been reading a lot of far-left literature recently. part of this is due to my extended syllabus, but another part of it is that i wanted to learn how my communist sister sees the world. it’s hard for me to actually define my o

unrequitedness | arielle lok go back 17092023 - unrequitedness i mindlessly bike around montreal to memorize new streets & discover neighbourhoods, mentally jotting down cafes and bars i must return to try. some days i wake up with my calendar empty, so i hop on google maps and choose a random saved pin to bike several kilometres to. i sit alone at bars and sample glasses of wine with a book. i ask waiters for their favourite wine, sample it and wince, then ask them for their funkiest wine and that usually appeases my pallets. living life like this feels like a murakami novel, including how i

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