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Ambition and San Francisco - by Nix 🕊 - starting from nix

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can I make a home from this feeling?

My photo of a beautiful sf sunset These are some of my longer notes on SF. I will be writing another piece for Cities — a substack series of cities we live in + what we love and hate about them. I pile my suitcases into an uber at the San Francisco airport. It’s a cool, dry, pale orange evening. We drive past countless DTC billboards, the darkening water by the highway, a winding loop through the Mission District, through the lit-up Hayes, up the hills. All I can think about is the first time I took this ride, the euphoria and fear I had of a new place, new surroundings, new people. We…

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