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Become a Longreads member if you aren’t already to receive our Top 5 in your inbox on Fridays, plus some additional member perks we're cooking up now.
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Become a Longreads member if you aren’t already to receive our Top 5 in your inbox on Fridays, plus some additional member perks we're cooking up now.
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"The front of my shirt was soaked from the water I’d been shoving the tacos into for lubrication, and it clung to my chest and distended belly as I staggered off the porch with little more than the plaque and an internal swirling of 'Don’t puke. Just keep it down.'" —Cameron Maynard for Texas Monthly
https://www.texasmonthly.com/food/why-i-stopped-competitive-eating/
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"The technicians came to check on us periodically, whispering, 'Doing OK?' For the first time in years, I got the sense there was someone in charge who cared about me, who was looking over me. It was not perfect, but it was more tender than the world outside." —Krista Diamond for Slate
https://slate.com/technology/2024/05/donate-plasma-gig-work-grad-school.html
#Longreads #EditorsPicks #Plasma #PlasmaDonation #Blood #MakingEndsMeet
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"You might wonder how it feels to wake up one day and not know who you are. I don’t know. I don’t remember. I need words I can’t find to say things I can’t say. This is called aphasia." —Judith Hannah Weiss for Salmagundi Magazine
https://salmagundi.skidmore.edu/articles/475-i-lost-my-life-in-2006
#Longreads #EditorsPicks #BrainInjury #Neurodiversity #TraumaticBrainInjury
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"A cloud of smoke rose to the ceiling, and a searing sound filled the room like a basket of snakes. 'This is the moment of truth,' Sam said, holding the tongs and looking away from the smoke. 'This is when it becomes a knife.'” —Laurence Gonzales for Chicago Magazine
https://www.chicagomag.com/chicago-magazine/january-2024/a-knife-forged-in-fire/
#Longreads #EditorsPicks #Handmade #Craft #Knife #Chicago #Bladesmith
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"'How do you prove that you are American enough to belong?' she asks. "I go, ‘I’m gonna take the most American food on the most American day and prove that I belong here.’” —Jamie Loftus for Takeout
https://thetakeout.com/competitive-eating-hot-dog-contest-true-untold-stories-1850639461
#Longreads #EditorsPicks #CompetitiveEating #HotDog #HotDogEatingContest
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"Being strong enough to face the carnage, and to live in its midst, he knew when it was a good day to visit my mom or my aunt or my cousin, and he knew when it was a bad day. He could tell when seeing someone hungover, strung out, or in jail would be better than not seeing them at all." —Joshua Hunt for The Believer
https://www.thebeliever.net/mount-fear-diary/
#Longreads #EditorsPicks #Japan #Alaska #Grief #IntergenerationalTrauma