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to understand what another person needed

I told Lindsay because she was beautiful and kind and patient and loved good things like birds and I wondered what she would say back to me. What would every good person I knew say to me when I told them that the wedding to which they’d RSVP’d was off and that the life I’d been building for three y…

—p.82 The Crane Wife: A Memoir in Essays The Crane Wife (71) by C.J. Hauser
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it had nothing to do with luck

Ross Sutherland is a poet and playwright and an all-around gorgeous madman. He has this podcast called Imaginary Advice and the “Sutherland Dunthorne Luck Index” is my favorite episode. There’s a running gag among his friend group that whenever something good happens to his friend fellow writer Joe…

—p.295 Siberian Watermelon (288) by C.J. Hauser
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why don’t you ask your father about that?

After the insemination, she tells Brynn to lie still for about ten minutes. Then she asks Brynn if she wants to keep the vial.

“Yes?” Brynn says.

“I forgot to keep all my kids’ stuff,” the nurse says, “and now they ask where it is.” She leaves.

“No one asked me that the last times,” Brynn …

—p.285 Uncoupling (263) by C.J. Hauser
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little flags I use to settle the land of my body

That my body is for me, is mine, that my body does not have to please others, has been a hard thing to understand. It is a thing I’ve been working on for a long time. My piercings and tattoos have helped. They are little flags I use to settle the land of my body. To claim it for myself. Mine, I say…

—p.271 Uncoupling (263) by C.J. Hauser
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where you have cried over multiple heartbreaks topic/heartbreak

Since having people I loved in the house made it feel better, I decided I might try love again. I let myself fall for a funny, handsome man I’d had a crush on for many years, since the first moment I saw him, really, even though I knew he lived abroad. I went and found him in Paris and we climbed a…

—p.255 The Fox Farm (239) by C.J. Hauser