REASONS FOR LIVING with Esmé Weijun Wang

REASONS FOR LIVING with Esmé Weijun Wang

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one year after C was hospitalized

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photo of a man in a newsboy cap and a woman with short curly black hair, heads leaned together. they are similing outdoors and the photo is pasted into a journal

This past weekend, C texted me some photographs of the day he was checked into his monthlong hospitalization for immune-system-blasting chemo and a life-saving bone marrow transplant. “It’s been a year,” he said. “Let’s take a photo of ourselves in the same pose we were in that day.”

I haven’t been feeling particularly well lately, so I urged us to quic…

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