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My best friend’s spiral tattoo - ramitha nagarajan

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“Some people say history moves in a spiral, not the line we have come to expect.

“Some people say history moves in a spiral, not the line we have come to expect. We travel through time in a circular trajectory, our distance increasing from an epicenter only to return again, one circle removed.” - Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous I read these words a few years ago when I entered college. Naively, I thought the adhesiveness they clung to me with would become less sticky over time – like tape mindlessly fiddled with. My first ever personal essay for a Berkeley magazine was about how my roommate’s Vitruvian Man tattoo related to the mastery of detachment I…

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