
Selected essay · Identity
The Person You Think I Am
The versions of us that live in other people.
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Identity, relationships, parenthood—and the choices that shape a life.
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Selected essay · Identity
The versions of us that live in other people.
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How the stories we build about other people can become more familiar than the people themselves.
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On friendship, loyalty, and the pain that follows when an unspoken bond stops meaning the same thing to both people.
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We often live by agreements no one discussed—and feel betrayed when someone else breaks rules they never knew existed.
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What happens when the structures that once made us feel safe begin limiting the life we are trying to build.
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