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Walking Slowly Into a New Year

Walking Slowly Into a New Year

Embrace the swirling, disorienting present

Lauren Maxwell
Jan 15, 2022
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Winter in the Suburbs, Georges Seurat, 1883

Nearly all my friends needed a Covid test the week after Christmas, but none could be found. Between the two of us John and I checked twelve drug stores. One friend went to a hospital and discovered it would cost a hundred dollars to be tested without her new insurance card, and another drove to a rural Wal-Mar…

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