Start Slowing Down Now Because a Big Curve Is Coming Up

Life is full of surprises. Abnormal bloodwork. Break-up texts. Loose rocks along a cliff. A large sculpture of a vagina you are dared into entering only to get your feet stuck and when the paramedics come they photograph you on the ground like you’ve been attacked and might be swallowed by the thing and the pictures get posted to social media. Things like that, I said. We were just talking in the car about how you never can tell. You never can tell, he repeated, not really listening. He didn’t know the road, but I did. That was my concern.

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