This Will All Be Over Soon: A Memoir (Memoir of Loss and Love)

by Cecily Strong

I want to say goodbye in a panic because it feels like people don’t get goodbyes when thousands die at once and people are unique and strange and some of them are the most bizarre members of your workplace. They deserve a goodbye we are not numbers we are not numbers we are not numbers.

We are losing people to corona that we’ve talked to about corona.

“Ironically, I will probably outlive one or two people to whom I’ve already said goodbye.”

I’m a corona meme now. A girl talking about boys and food.

I want you to help me be normal.

heard something once that’s always stuck with me, about why we get the pins-and-needles feeling in our hands and feet when blood flow has been restricted and then comes back. Because the blood is bringing that body part back to life. And coming back to life hurts.

one of his favorite things to do was throw sticks in the street to hear the cars drive over them.

“Maybe I’m a better writer during a time when everyone is devastated. I’m a great voice of devastation. It wouldn’t shock me.” We

“I can’t imagine how hard it has been to fight fear and pain alone.” We

Do you know I cry about you all the time, mainly because I love you so much, but also because the truth is I’m really scared and I can’t say that out loud? Am