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By Tao Lin“In middle school, when no one was home, I would lay facing Binky as he lay flat on his side on the carpet. ‘I love you,’ I would say.”
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By Marlene Morgan“ ‘I said, you know, thank goodness it’s not autism,’ Jenny said, so exuberantly that it took Marion a moment to register the joke.”
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By Dionne Brand“Whoever ‘we’ are, the passage of this time, these past few years, has been like walking deeper and deeper into a space whose full contours we are still making out.”
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By Ayé Aton“From the nineties to his death, Aton composed hundreds of smaller-scale acrylics on paper and canvas.”
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By Josephine Baker“When the cheering and applause died down, I danced like I always have and always will, not thinking about good or evil but only about my dance, my honest and ever-so-pure dance”
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By Matt Broaddus“When I was regional / they let me have hands”
