The Wreckage of My Presence: Essays
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When my husband and I first met, he was shocked to learn I didn’t lock the doors to my car or to my apartment. In Los Angeles. I shrugged. “If people are gonna get in, they’re gonna get in.” He was horrified. Safety has never been my first concern. Nor my second. Or third.
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“Take it. I dare you. It’s just stuff” mentality. And it’s not because we have infinite money and can replace such items willy-nilly. We do not. It’s just a dangerous mix of blind optimism and the fact that we are lazy as all hellllllllll.