LOST And Found IN AMERICA

ANN NAPOLITANO

When I was 21, I spent the summer driving around the United States with my boyfriend. It amazes me, looking back, that I let myself go on that eight-week trip. At the end of my junior year of college, I’d caught a virus I’d never heard of—Epstein-Barr—and had been sick ever since. I’d failed to graduate from college and watched my boyfriend and friends receive their diplomas from a seat in the audience. That June, my immune system was improving—I had fewer bouts of food poisoning and no longer caught every cold or flu I encountered. I knew what I should do that summer: get an internship, or take extra classes. It was time to chart a path back to the type A, hardworking young woman I’d been before I…

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O, Quarterly (Digital) - 1 Issue, Holiday 2024

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