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The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, by Aimee Bender

To see someone you love, in a bad setting, is one of the great barometers of gratitude.

I would love to hear people’s stories of this feeling. It strikes me as one of the most powerful human surges of great appreciation and humility. How you’re somewhere full of need, and scanning the world, and no one is quite the person you’re looking for, and you keep looking, and checking, and then there’s that person and the rightness is overwhelming.

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Liz

I think the strongest version of this is being lost as a child, when you can’t see anyone you know and your whole world is the place where you are right now. I was never really lost, but even a few mi…

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Poojitha

It's truly amazing. I was trying to make sense of this and after reading your note, it hit me. There has been many a time when I wanted to escape certain situations or was just stressing out on the in…

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