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Added February 17, 2014
We’re living in a weird moment. Everything has become archivable.
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Papyralysis
Jacob Mikanowski
Published
2013
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War entered my childhood world not with the blasts of rockets and bombs but with my father's footsteps as he walked through the hallway, passing my bedroom toward his.
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The first thing I remember tasting and then wanting to taste again is the grayish-pink fuzz my grandmother skimmed from a spitting kettle of strawberry jam. I suppose I was about four.