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I won’t date someone like me

I was 14 and had my first kiss in the rain. In Slovakia. With a boy from there. He looked different from the blonde, blue-eyed German boys that I was used to. He dressed differently. I didn’t…

You’re a compassionate Trump voter

A WEEK OR SO AGO, an acquaintance of mine reached out to me after 12 years of perfectly appropriate radio silence (we were never that close) and assured me that, while he voted for Trump, he certai…

A Cuban love story

I observe 2 women talking in the street, giving their undivided attention to each other. No one checks a phone, or a watch, or breaks eye contact. I’m sitting on a small crate under a tree in…