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Weekly Contest #335
Warning: This piece includes medical crisis, emergency surgery, and explicit physical suffering. There’s mention of addiction-adjacent behavior, hospitalization, and a line about wanting to die. Fat Tuesday Years ago, before the real launch of the internet and absolutely before cell phones were a thing, I flew to a tony resort town in the middle of Baja Mexico with my then boyfriend, Esteban. It was a last ditch effort to mend the scrappy tatters of our long-term love affair already unraveled from too much work and his deep love for alcohol...
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