Heather Havrilesky

"Heather Havrilesky attempts to disrupt our cultural delusions and false dichotomies, to unearth moralistic interpretations of mundane human behaviors and interrogate so-called mistakes that we've slowly internalized, and to question the glorification of suffering, dishonesty, romantic fantasy, conquest, predation, and perfectionism"--

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What If This Were Enough?

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When you leave my mother's house, it's true that you might feel some relief at the thought of returning to the comforts of modern life. But when you get back to your own house, your ordinary windows and doors that shut tightly will feel like a disappointment. Your dry California air and your swimming pool will feel like trifles compared to trees so tall they disap- pear into the sky. I used to think that my mother's house was embarrassing, a ramshackle mess in a small town, nothing and nowhere. Now I know that my mother's house is the center of the universe. There is no other place like it.

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