if this isn't nice, what is? - by Lilian Caylee

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maybe she's born with it. maybe it's magic.

These days, I’ve been finding myself making mental notes throughout the day — to remember this, to write this down (which I inevitably forget to do), to dog-ear this page of my life for a rainy day. For all of the unfortunate events that have washed through the world in the past two years, for all of the unfortunate events in my own life, I’ve been feeling a kind of buoyancy lately. Maybe underneath the shimmer is really just relief — relief that I’m no longer waking up to New York Times articles about towers of dead bodies or another of our elders beaten and battered. Maybe it’s the change…

if this isn't nice, what is? - by Lilian Caylee

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