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People Who Are Naturally ___. - by Jane Zhang

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April 2026

Hockney, David. The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate, 2011, oil on 32 canvases. At the beginning of this month, I got lunch with a new friend (we’ll call him M). I recounted to M the last essay I wrote and my reflections on my week-long staycation, and to each story I shared, M responded with a series of thoughts that hit at the crux of what I was experiencing. For example, I told M how I had a friend who showed up for me when I got my eye infection last March, and even though in total we have only been friends for a little over a year, this friend is now integral to my life. M asked me if…

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