If returning to America was like getting on a lifeboat, why did I feel like I was drowning?
If there had once been a rope connecting me to him, at this point in my life it had dwindled down to a thread
I thought I knew the point at which my youth would transform into something else
My girlfriend saw me entering my 20s without a care in the world; at my age she was watching her friends die
The third installment of Nelly Reifler’s three-part essay about marriage, murder, 9/11, and how she said goodbye to Elliott Smith
The second installment of Nelly Reifler’s three-part essay about marriage, murder, 9/11, and how she said goodbye to Elliott Smith
The first installment of Nelly Reifler's three-part essay about marriage, murder, 9/11, and how she said goodbye to Elliott Smith
Her boyfriend was good when she would first let him back into the house. She was an optimist
I had no one to answer to. No one to make me feel guilty and dirty and sinful
I wanted to associate myself with what he loved, in order to be closer to him
The problem with the young Irish author was how her writing remained deeply uncynical about love
It’s best for a writer to learn how to write under any conditions. Train travel forced me to adapt
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