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'I Want My Fucking Pearls Back!'

Acknowledging the pain of loss, past or future, creates beauty in your life.

Heather Havrilesky
Feb 08, 2024
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Monday Without Date (1968) by Dorothea Tanning

Dear Polly,

The short version of this letter is that I lost a precious gift given to me by my boyfriend over the holidays. I don’t know how it happened. The bracelet was on my wrist in the Uber ride home from the airport after a girls’ weekend and four hours later, I got out of the shower and it was gone. I t…

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