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August in the Countryside: Notes on Tomato Rice and Egg Pudding
A tale of a family gathering on a hot summer day
Aug 26 • Joana Araci
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Letter 31 — There were naked women there!
On the cultural shock of different Europeans
Aug 22 • Joana Araci
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Letter 30 — Summer in silence
Notes on loneliness, youth, robotized humans, and humanized robots
Aug 17 • Joana Araci
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Take Me Back to the Start
Tell me you love me, come back and haunt me
Aug 12 • Joana Araci
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So, Are All Women Crazy, Or What?
The burden of being strong in a world that wants you weak
Aug 9 • Joana Araci
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How to Lose a Friend in August
Letter 29: Reflections from a heatwave, a hidden lake, and a friendship drifting out of view
Aug 5 • Joana Araci
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The Silence of Poverty in My Grandfather’s Village
A story of Portuguese forgotten children and how angels always come too early
Aug 1 • Joana Araci
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I'm Still Waiting to Become a Teenager
Teenage dreams and other broken promises, or a coming-of-age that never even came
Jul 29 • Joana Araci
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The Normalization of Insanity
How do we cope when everything is absurd and nothing makes sense anymore?
Jul 15 • Joana Araci
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How I Ended Up on a Remote Greek Island
And how to get to places, we need more than an airplane ticket
Jul 8 • Joana Araci
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