By Any Other Name
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Read between June 27 - July 8, 2025
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She stepped into the night, drew the stars around her like a cloak, and grew up in the space of a heartbeat.
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When it came to history, absence of evidence was not evidence of absence.
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They were the soft blue of your most comfortable dress—faded, but full of your best memories.
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“Are we friends?” “Aspirationally,” he said.
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“Seriously, where did you get this? I want to eat it every day for the rest of my life. I want to buy the restaurant and make the chef my love slave.”
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Explosives. Opioids. Nuclear weapons. None of them could hold a candle to hope, the most dangerous commodity in the world.
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That was both the blessing and the curse of hope: it turned a weary why into a seductive why not. Even when you were wise enough to understand the odds of failure, all you saw was that sliver of possible success.
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I have always wondered how Shakespeare seemed to know so much about what it meant to be a woman.” “We are human first,” Emilia replied. “That’s all I wanted to share.”
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What do you say when you know your words will be your last? I was here. I mattered.
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once you had everything you’d ever wished for, you could not help but fear the moment you wouldn’t.
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If you find someone or something that makes you feel larger than life, my darling, grab tight with both hands.