Meditations in an Emergency

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“Cupid the Honey Thief” (1514), Albrecht Durer

As a teenager, I shoplifted. I loved shoplifting. For maybe two years I shoplifted quite a bit. I haven’t done it since, though several friends of mine have reengaged lately, in their thirties and forties—typically at the grocery store, the one owned by Bezos Farms, a little seven-dollar something slipped in…

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