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Heather Havrilesky
Sep 11, 2023
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Microcosm and Macrocosm (1937) by Helen Lundeberg

My house is filled with tiny ashtrays. There are four ashtrays on the mantel and fifteen on the top of my bookshelf and three on my dresser, purple and dark blue and speckled white and brown. No one here smokes. So I put necklaces in them, or hair ties, or guitar picks. I need to give them a job so they d…

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