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About maryangelis

Hello Readers! (= Здравствуйте, Читатели!) The writer lives in the Catholic and Orthodox faiths and the English and Russian languages, working in an archive by day and writing at night. Her walk in the world is normally one human being and one small detail after another. Then she goes home and types about it all until the soup is done.

5 People That I Didn’t Want to Meet

First Impression 1. The subway is packed. The wind chill is -5. That girl in the back is still talking. Is she going to keep it up to the end of the line? Yes. The girl in the back is … Continue reading

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New Year’s Speech

This is about visiting a church on New Year’s Eve. Except it’s really about why visiting this church turned out to be a good idea. That was an eventful year. Our warm harmonious group house broke up, with roommates going … Continue reading

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Solitary 12.26.11

In 1996 this wave of solitariness washed up on the inner landscape, this cumulative wave of having stuff to talk about and process, but no one available to hear it. It was like spending the day behind a soundproof glass … Continue reading

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