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Rebecca Sturgeon
Mar 9, 2021

Telling the Story of My Life So Far

I am telling myself the story of our life together, and I am telling myself the story of my new…

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Rebecca Sturgeon
Mar 2, 2021

Tattooed Against Good Advice

My friend Stacey warned me not to do anything crazy: don’t adopt an African baby. Don’t move to a commune in…

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Rebecca Sturgeon
Feb 5, 2021

In Which the Author Escapes to a Dance Retreat in Costa Rica

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Rebecca Sturgeon
Jan 28, 2021

The Night We Drank Wine and Planned Our Separation

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Rebecca Sturgeon
Jan 21, 2021

Conversation with the Previous Generation’s Divorcee

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Rebecca Sturgeon
Sep 13, 2020

Opening the Southlands

I started corresponding with a man in California. He said he was a single father who traveled frequently for work, and…

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Rebecca Sturgeon
Sep 7, 2020

Gigi

Gigi was our realtor in Chicago. She was with us for the first condo we ever purchased — the one I stayed up at night wondering how this purchase…

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Rebecca Sturgeon
Aug 30, 2020

No Direction

Whenever I traveled, I carried a map. I never looked at it while I was wandering around a new place; instead I pored over it at night…

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Rebecca Sturgeon
Aug 27, 2020

PROLOGUE: BLAST ZONE

He told me in April and by June he was gone. Gone in time for the first summer where I grew fully into my career. Gone in…

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