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christmas

Meghan O’Rourke | christmas

My mother died of metastatic colorectal cancer shortly before three P.M. on Christmas Day of 2008. I don’t know the exact time of her death, because none of us thought to look at a clock for a while after she stopped breathing.

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strength

Meghan O’Rourke | strength

It’s all too easy when talking about female gymnasts to fall into the trap of infantilizing them, spending more time worrying more about female vulnerability than we do celebrating female strength.

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knowledge

Meghan O’Rourke | knowledge

My whole life, I had been taught to read and study, to seek understanding in knowledge of history, of cultures.

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Food

Meghan O’Rourke | food

Grief is a bad moon, a sleeper wave. It’s like having an inner combatant, a saboteur who, at the slightest change in the sunlight, or at the first notes of a jingle for a dog food commercial, will flick the memory switch, bringing tears to your eyes.

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