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letter from tokyo - by Ava - bookbear express

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Announcement: a Boston meetup is happening November 2nd! Also: the second Sydney meetup is happening November 3rd! Also: a LA meetup is happening on November 10th. If you’re organizing or end up attending any of these meetups, feel free to send me pictures and/or a recap at avabearexpress@gmail.com! And of course if you want to host a meetup in your own city you can let me know via email. There also seem to be a lot of organization efforts in my subscriber chat. In Tokyo I bought the rainboots I’d wanted for so long, in a department store called Hands, on a floor called Weather. They were made by the Wild Bird Society of Japan and come up to my knees. I’d wanted a bright green pair but they only had grey. I find that I cling to objects in periods of turmoil, rely on them to bring order to the world. Breakups feel like the end of the world, and I keep thinking that they are, in fact, the end of a world. Two people share an entire private language, a thousand inside jokes. Particular ges

Announcement: a Boston meetup is happening November 2nd! Also: the second Sydney meetup is happening November 3rd! Also: a LA meetup is happening on November 10th. If you’re organizing or end up attending any of these meetups, feel free to send me pictures and/or a recap at avabearexpress@gmail.com! And of course if you want to host a meetup in your own city you can let me know via email. There also seem to be a lot of organization efforts in my subscriber chat. In Tokyo I bought the rainboots I’d wanted for so long, in a department store called Hands, on a floor called Weather. They were…

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