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The summer I was twenty-one was my “mysterious fainting summer.” I fainted all the time. I fainted in grocery stores and at the gas station, and in a McDonald’s bathroom. I fainted at home, by myself, and...
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I met Htwe (pronounced “Lat-we”), a Burmese refugee, when I took a job with a local resettlement agency. I keep the newspaper article about him on my desk. Every summer I unfold it again. I’m not sure why s...
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Before I moved to China in 2016, friends and family warned me about what I would lose.
“Oh, Lord, you’re going to end up trapped in a Nike factory.”
“But don’t they arrest and kill Christians? Aren’t...
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We stood on the stoop and rang the doorbell, the sound echoing inside. The street could have been anywhere in Orange County—single-story stucco homes, spiny cacti, and tidy succulent gardens.
My son,...
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My mother, age eighty-eight, is buck naked except for a pair of teeny-tiny surgical underpants she’s still wearing, which you can see right through. She’s moving fast on foot. I stand passively in a daze a...
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