New York,

When I look at you from the window seat of a plane, it’s hard to grasp your vastness. A sprawl of buildings, apartments, skyscrapers, overpasses, tunnels, and parks—each one a marker in the countless lives you’ve shaped. Yet in the sea of everything, there’s one life, in one wretchedly outdated building, that has brought my heart a…read more

Dear 15 year old me,

Man are you in for a ride.

And I don’t mean one of those smooth sailing, dreamy boat rides that you find in Disney. I’m talking Six Flags Goliath, being suspended in the air with no choice but to stick it out.

That’s probably not what you want to hear, but preparation is key.

Let’s start with the good: You win homecom…

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