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This one, among a million others: “He either thinks he’s in an old movie or knows I think I’m in one.”

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I love your writing so much. It feels like a reminder that I can make connections

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Accidental Church is such a special series Papi 🫶 this specific one will be a favorite for a long time I think

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Thank you for allowing us to share your table for one. I felt invited, welcomed, and appreciated.

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Just beautiful in every way. thank you for sharing it

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The weight of the final line brought me to tears. Thank you for painting this moment with your words.

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I love that about NYC, how one can enjoy solitary thoughts and simultaneously feel like a part of the flow of humanity. Beautifully written.

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incredible. thank you.

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The line that really got me (who chooses mundane things every day sometimes because I feel I deserve the mundane and sometimes because being mundane is comfortable):

"The non-experience of eating Chipotle in New York City is an invisible act for invisible people like me. It will feel neither good nor bad, merely appropriate, which is fine."

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