Stories of the collective: cities, institutions, economies of feeling, the rules that govern bodies at scale. What a community decides to do together, and what that decision reveals about what it actually believes. The individual inside the structure, and how each shapes the other without either meaning to.
The words, when they arrived, were about the thing and not the thing.
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An absence of pressure she had not previously noticed was there.
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I'm not saying it was fine. I'm saying I'm done carrying it.
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This is what the data can't capture.