(hello!...) - by jessica dai - letters to my friends :~)
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waking from hibernation / some book reviews
I wrote on the plane please clap I’ve sat on this domain for over a year now. At this point I have at least three half-baked newsletter introductions (that I can find), written several months apart, all circling in some way around all the reasons I’m loath to write—throat-clearing, as I’ve heard folks call it. On this fourth time, I’m committing to send this email out, throat-clearing and all. I get newsletters from people I care about and I pin them to the top of my inbox where they stay for a couple of days until I dig myself out of the suffocating hole of slack pings and work emails,…
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