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The Sandbox

I’m too big for sandboxes now, you said. Billy says only little kids play in sandboxes,
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Why My Curls Are Growing on Me

“My hair has long tormented me.”
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Notes on Reading Addressed to a Stranger

A book is a friend/to the end of the line—
The Gap Between My Front Teeth byTova Weiss, Reflections By Caroline Koppel

The Gap Between My Front Teeth

“Why would I remove the gap between my front teeth?”
It's a Guy Thing by Ollie Small - photo by Danielle Deculus

It’s a Guy Thing

“god help us all, discrimination is just a guy thing.”
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I Am Not Your Number

“We pray to the god you don't want us to believe in”
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New Recording 930820847284

If I could do it all again I would write you a hundred happy endings, spell your names into each leaf and tree and cloud.
Stars and Scars by Sarah Jean - photo by Hannah Rubenstein

Stars and Scars: Finding Strength in the Little Jewish Girl I Once Was

“I may not have gotten a tattoo, but the stars I cut are just as permanent.”
Sacred Walls by Shayna Schreiber - Photo by Sonja Lippmann

Sacred Walls

“Its Hebrew bitter to my untrained tongue/ And its mysteries swirling in my clueless mind”
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Self-Portrait

Self-portrait done with pencil and graphite on paper