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This is the sort of place a sort of person like me—like I am or like I was or maybe will be again—should go on vacation and thrive and come back and brag about: I read the newspaper, I recycle, I wear Birkenstocks and buy sweatshop free clothing and do yoga and eat organic food and install solar panels for a living and go to conferences on renewable energy. Social injustice pisses me off. I know the difference between the Shiites and the Sunnis and how colonialism has affected the world. I kn...

Say Say Old Playmate I saw her only on Sundays, playing hookie from catechism classes. In the beginning, we would sneak into grown up church and watch the dull faces and nodding heads pretend to listen to Latin. When she would imitate the serious members of Townsend , Massachusetts as they 'd shake hands and say “Peace be with you,” we'd hold laughter in our mouths with our little hands. But I was nervous the whole time—afraid of my parents finding me. Not because they would've been angry wit...