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by Elaine de Kooning Things often become meaningful only in retrospect. It’s incredibly difficult to gauge the significance of an event as it occurs—I don’t doubt there are genuine moments of love at first sight and obvious catastrophes, but many beginnings are inconspicuous. Even when something is clearly important it’s hard how to predict how it’ll change you.

by Elaine de Kooning Things often become meaningful only in retrospect. It’s incredibly difficult to gauge the significance of an event as it occurs—I don’t doubt there are genuine moments of love at first sight and obvious catastrophes, but many beginnings are inconspicuous. Even when something is clearly important it’s hard how to predict how it’ll change you. Some of the ways I’ve met people who later became very important to me: meaningless small talk at a friend’s party 7/10 Coffee Meets Bagel date he came up to me while I was typing on my laptop in a Mission tea shop with the…

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