everything new - by Helena Fitzgerald - Griefbacon

after the party there's the afterparty and after the afterparty there's George Bailey just trying to make it through the third week of January

we all get used to everything but honestly I’ve never gotten used to this Hi everyone. Welcome to griefbacon, or welcome back if you’ve been here a while. It’s a new year, we’re doing this again. This newsletter runs roughly three times a week– a subscriber discussion thread, which I like to think of as a virtual conversation pit, on Mondays, a public essay for everybody usually on Wednesday or Thursday, and an essay only for subscribers on Saturdays. Some weeks it’ll veer off from this, or skip entirely, but that’s the general idea. The theme is long weird essays about love, and sometimes…

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