Kernel | a bid, adieu

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For D—my love, my best friend, my closest reader, and the remarkable family that made him. With gratitude to K and B, in w...

Kernel | a bid, adieu Issue 4 nonfiction a bid, adieu written by Irena Wang edited by Shohini Gupta art by Tiffany Wang For D—my love, my best friend, my closest reader, and the remarkable family that made him. With gratitude to K and B, in whose patient company so many of these ideas first germinated. My husband died of an accidental overdose in March 2022. An unexpected death can defamiliarize the basic components of everyday life. After my husband’s, I acquired a particular sensitivity to counterfactuals. I found their arbitrariness maddening. For a time I had trouble speaking or writing in

Kernel | a bid, adieu

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