Content warnings: child sexual abuse, drug use, murder She was born in 1967 in Jacksonville, Florida and got to live until 1982. She was born into the latest generation of a family soaked through with
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Zine Peek: Based on a True Story
This short essay originally appeared in Neuroticarium Volume 1 Issue 2: Memory in 2019. Memory is not a recording device When we remember things, we don’t just find the right file and press play. It
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The Purposeful Mayonnaise is a combo deal literary and art journal and online platform — so very my cup of tea; I love a multi-arts, multi-platform production. They're doing really interesting things with it. Today
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When my Grandma Madeleine was four, her mother, Florence, took her and her two older sisters, five and seven, out to the Montréal shopping district to buy new shoes. It was 1934, almost five years
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Originally published on an old travel blog from 2013 when I spent a little over three months in the the USA and Québec. I love coffee. I’ve been addicted to it since I was fifteen
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How do you feel about these off-the-wall names that some of my early Québecker ancestors gave their children? Girls SymphoroseTheotisteMarcellineJosephteApollineScholastiqueCedeliceHarmoniaZelire Boys SilfroyPolydoreEnguerrand This could very well be a nuclear family (1907)Some rights reserved by UpNorth Memories -
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Some people call them hope chests or bottom drawers. My mother calls them glory boxes. In Western cultures, they are places where little girls store their trouseaux — linens and other items they have made
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