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Weike Wang Reads “Status in Flux”

The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker

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Marriage Interview Tips and Sample Questions

During a week of clarity I told myself yes, I'm excited to be one degree closer to being American. The next time Matt's sister video called us she was on a different roof deck. She looked happy, tanned, she had done something new with her hair. For a week I slept and felt like a real person, as opposed to say a zombie. Zombies are not bonafide people but they're closer to being people than aliens. Aliens can experience identity fractures or short circuits of the brain. Eventually new bone grows over these fractures, healthy cells wrapping existential ones.

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