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Flying Over the Abyss

Flying Over the Abyss

...the bone-deep loneliness

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Mary Gaitskill
Jan 18, 2023
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At the end of my last post (“Chatting With the Abyss”) I wondered if any readers had an experience anything like the one I described; if you had, I invited you to write to me about them with the idea of maybe posting a few. I got an extraordinary reply from a musician and writer I’ll call A.B. (for now); she describes an e…

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