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Couchsurfing Collage by the author To protect the privacy of the individuals depicted, some names and identifying details have been changed. --------------------------- Spring 2025 Your whole life story is in that backpack and you hand it to me one page at a time. Your toxicology report, your birth certificate, psych evaluation, social security card. The gray elastic band of your [...]
I was too young to comprehend “dark energy” that pulls apart the human psyche. But at 19, I was a witness. New York State Psychiatric Institute, high up and hovering over the Hudson in Washington Heights, was, and still is, a special teaching hospital connected to Columbia University. In the 1950s, when I worked there, it catered mostly to the [...]
