A Writer's Notebook

A Writer's Notebook

The List

A Sunday letter.

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Summer Brennan
May 18, 2025
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Digital oil sketch.

Dear Friend,

Here is a thing you can actually do. You can sit down and make a list of every person you have ever loved in your life. You can put on it your childhood friends, the ones you knew before you knew yourself, when you were still in the sandbox, when you were still in diapers. You can put the girl who stood beside you in lines…

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