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pan(ama)demonium - helen's substack

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pan·de·mo·ni·um /ˌpandəˈmōnēəm / noun. wild and noisy disorder or confusion; uproar.

Writing is a skill, and I appear to be very out of practice. You see, instead of formulating a sequence of coherent thoughts about a Memorable Life Experience (my last debate world championship), I chose to spend my seven hour flight home from Panama doing the following: Sleeping Doomscrolling (an impressive feat considering the lack of Wifi) Apathetically bothering debate friends about nothing in particular Nevertheless, here I am, tip-tapping away in my notes app the last 20 minutes before my flight lands. So, as they say, here goes nothing1: For the last time, I’m starting in 3, 2,…

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