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All My Dead & Living Things

Caitie Hilverman
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All My Dead & Living Things is a fifth-generation Hudsonian’s attempt to make sense of history, power, and belonging in a city that is still becoming.

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    Writer, coach, gravestone tender, memory keeper. Cognitive psychology PhD, ex-data scientist, fifth-generation Hudsonian. Here I remember what was so we might shape what will be.

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