Elena: Forced out of the interpersonal stage

A life-or-death decision that catalyzed profound personal transformation.

Athena statue in the MIT Great Court. Photo (CC) Madcoverboy She was also an experimental physics graduate student, doing something important with the fractional quantum hall effect, which had just been discovered. For my story, that she was a physicist doesn’t signify, except as evidence that she was smart and interesting. For this story,1 her being a witch matters mainly in that I was also a witch,2 which is how I met her. It was at a Neopagan May Day ritual held in the Great Court at MIT. Elena presided as High Priestess. We circle-danced around the three-story-tall statue of Athena,…

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• Corbin Aquino

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