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On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
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On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
by Ocean Vuong
Read between March 21 - April 9, 2022
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Sometimes being offered tenderness feels like the very proof that you’ve been ruined.
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Too much joy, I swear, is lost in our desperation to keep it.