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"I wanted to share something about Ana that only a few of us still remember. Ana was here. She was amazing. She invented entire worlds."
“'Did you know John and Wendy divorced?' a mutual friend asked. I did not. 'Well I ran into Wendy, and she asked me to relay a message to you.'"
"What do you say to your child that isn’t legally your child when he reaches out to you in need of something you aren’t sure you’re allowed to give him?"
"It is uncertainty about the future that makes me question such a meaningful investment in this future."
"Sometimes, when someone congratulated me, I would start to cry, and they would walk away confused."
"I’ve learned a lot since Dobbs about how to plan for my children’s health care from afar, a part of college planning that would never have occurred to me three years ago."
"After the AI digested my prompt, a face appeared on the screen. 'Wow, there he is.' I thought."
"I opened up my Notes app on my phone to retrieve the email they had given me but... somehow their contact info had gotten deleted. I was devastated."
"During the summer I turned 14, I came home to a typewritten letter waiting for me on my bedspread."
"I grieve the loss of who I was: someone who felt secure in the knowledge that I had never knowingly caused anyone grief."