(Bilinda Butcher I Love You) Since I Was Twenty-Six

Of Shoegaze and Shallots: An Imagined My Bloody Valentine Encounter

DS Racer
The Riff
Published in
5 min readMar 8, 2022

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Somewhere wandering amongst the onions, I saw her. She was handling the garlic in the most elegant way, fingers caressing each bulb as if it were a Fabergé egg. Daily, dozens of women over age 50 roam the produce aisle at the Piggly Wiggly on Packerland Road in…

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DS Racer
The Riff

DS Racer lives in Los Angeles with his bilingual family. An immigration attorney, the Chicago native enjoys walking his dog and eating breakfast cereal.