The Daughters of Block Island
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Read between November 27 - December 13, 2023
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She’s a storm cloud that wants to rain.
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Despair, black as tar, fills her lungs.
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Continue the downward spiral she’s been on since she realized a can of beer or a tablet of Xanax made her memories of orphanages and brutish foster mothers turn as sepia-toned and serene as the childhood photographs she never got to have?
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A reminder that everything—rusticated wood, leather, flesh—is deteriorating.
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To her, shedding the L.L.Bean wardrobe and adopting a sleeker appearance is the physical manifestation of renouncing Block Island.