In the 2015 New York Times article “Please Stop Making That Noise,” Barron H. Lerner calls misophonia, literally hatred of sound, a “selective sound sensitivity syndrome.” It can be triggered…
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The summer I turned fourteen, my best friend Katie was in love with the chiseled lifeguard who presided over her community pool from his chair high up in the heavens.…
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I. i have spent my whole life waiting for crisis. i have built so much of my perception of time around endings. i have felt for so long the…
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Our tour guide pulls over on the side of the road, a few hundred feet from a gas station. We wait inside the battered white van as a hard rain…
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“How fitting!” said the woman at the mall, her rosy cheeks flaring up. “How fitting!” said the man in the grocery store, waiting in line in front of us to purchase his…