I say this all the time: my close friends are the great loves of my life. I have and will experience other loves in this life: magical irreplaceable experiences much like my friendships. I think our collective relegation of platonic friendships to secondary status is a mistake. Here I do my bit to undo some of that damage one anonymous letter at a time.
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This front line thing is heavy. If I could do it again, I’d enlist a therapist from day one. It’s like a front row seat to a slow motion fall.
We all start as relatively normal people with initially very normal reactions to decidedly abnormal stuff. Here, I try to map those changes through a series of snapshots to try make sense of it all.
It might be a fools errand to try and explain why a health professional vilified for sleeping strikes a chord with so many of us. For me it exposes a false dichotomy and a suspicion I have about public perception. In any case, I’ve never not been called a fool so here we go.
I’m a disappointing athlete.
I’m (thankfully) built well enough to try anything but not for any particular physical excellence. I’m not very fast, naturally thick (though I lose muscle quickly). I have knock knees and am graceless at best.
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Let’s get to know each other a bit better. 16 things to know about me:
Collaborative Eavesdropping 