Dispatches from a Porch Swing

Dispatches from a Porch Swing

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“I woke up at 2am.”

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Jen Deaderick
Jan 12, 2025
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I woke up at 2am. My first thought was that someone I knew in LA had just lost their house and the psychic reverberations had jolted me awake. So I grabbed my phone to scroll through Facebook updates, like I’ve been doing for days.

There had been no psychic reverberations. Maybe a coyote had howled outside or my boyfriend had snorted in his sleep. Thing…

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