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I arrived on Thompson Street in a yellow cab with one suitcase and $200 I’d saved from babysitting. That July morning in 1981 a radio DJ had declared it one of the ten best days of the year. A good day to start over. When I’d turned 16 in May, I hadn’t foreseen any of this. The situation at my [...]
I saw three different therapists my freshman year of college. The first’s name was Thiago. I visited him in a little shack where I sat on the edge of his couch gripping my tote bag and clicking a pen over and over again. Even before I began speaking, my eyes welled up with tears. I told him about my desire [...]
Big Eric is an alcoholic. I know this because he talks to me about his life when we work together. He’s 40-years old, and he tells me he’s feeling stressed and alone, and that the only time he feels peace is when he drinks. He lives around the corner from the café and sometimes in the middle of the night [...]
