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Jagged Little Healing

Raechel Anne Jolie — Thu, 17 Sep 2020 14:00:31 +0000

Content note: discussion of childhood sexual assault “I would love to go down on you,” is what my mom’s boyfriend said to me when he held me down on a bed when I was 13 years old. The only other time I had heard the phrase “go down on” was in Alanis Morissette’s “You Oughta Know,” in […]

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Retaining Water

Raechel Anne Jolie — Mon, 25 Nov 2019 12:30:11 +0000

On our cruise to Alaska, I can’t stop thinking about how the water remembers. I am with my mother, who turned 60 last month, because this is her sole bucket list item and because I’ve promised myself for over a decade that — despite her poverty and my current underemployment — I would make this trip […]

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