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All These Moments That Make Forever - by Tara Monjazeb

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On paying attention and crystallised memory

In September 2020, I began my second year of university alone in my teenage bedroom, five hours behind my classmates. I woke up at 4 AM most days — sometimes for school, other times for the opening shift of my neighbourhood barista job. In that waiting period at dusk, between the presence of the moon and the slow rise of the sun, I searched for light. Looking out into the indigo sky, I found pieces of joy, like in the occasional passing plane or rogue star, and I pocketed them. A flicker of light, a flicker of hope, a small flame with a visual echo. Every time I felt an inkling of peace, a…

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