Today, Celeste reads a “Modern Love” essay about exactly that bond, a mother trying desperately to reach her child.
Why do you think you’re so drawn to tiny things?
If you’re going to make something in miniature, you have to spend a lot of time really looking at it.
Because, OK, Betsey’s daughter spray paints, “Too many bushes, not enough trees,” and you’re going around putting, honestly, beautiful lines of T.S.
So there is something about that language that even if you think you’re rational, it’s getting to you somehow.
Persons:
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Organizations:
The New York Times, eBay, Farmer, NASA
Locations:
manila, Sierra Leone, T.S, Hong Kong, There’s