Letter From Your Editors
Hello daily doubles!
Yes, this is a combo Insider for November/December — a situation which ideally will never reoccur but nonetheless is clearly occurring at present. The reason for this is that November was entirely consumed by an intense move which included a long drive and then the top of December was a lot of crashing and finding a new place to live and now it's unpacking! But listen we're all here now:
1st row: Tiara, Laneia, Valerie Anne, Mey, Rachel, Heather // 2nd row: Erin, Alexis, Cee, Casey, Riese, Carrie // 3rd row: Yvonne, Raquel, Vanessa, Kayla, Siobhan, Carmen // 4th row: Stef, KaeLyn, Laura, Nora, Kristin, Sarah
We are now mere days away from the end of 2017, every day continuing to be full of its own beautiful and/or (more often) dark magic. It's almost over, y'all. It's almost fucking over.
This is the deepest blue, talking, Maggie Nelson writes in "Bluets." A feeling I have felt, torpedoing into 2017 on January 1st in a fitting scene: d...
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