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Weekly Contest #341
Five thousand miles is the kind of number that sounds clean until you try to live inside it. It’s a number you can Google. Taipei to Seattle. The little airplane icon. The curved line across the Pacific that makes the world look smooth, like distance is just geometry. But distance is not geometry. Distance is your mother’s voice arriving half a second late on FaceTime. Distance is “你吃飯了沒?” spoken through a bad connection, and your automatic “吃了” even when you haven’t. Distance is time zones that turn intimacy into scheduling. Five thousan...
I ran into Makena in aisle seven at Trader Joe’s, which felt like the least romantic place on earth to have your entire nervous system reboot. Trader Joe’s is designed to be harmless. Everything is rounded. The signs are handwritten. The employees smile like they’ve never had a complicated thought in their lives. Even the fruit looks like it’s been coached. The whole store is a performance of ease, like if you buy the right frozen food and the right little bouquet, your life will start to behave, it’s like the phrase “new year, new me.” I ...
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