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American Hagwon

by Min Jin Lee

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Sep 30, 2026 08:30PM

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The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave

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Last night Maren dreamt a whale beached itself on the rocks outside her house. She climbed down the cliff to its heaving body and rested her eye against its eye, wrapped her arms across the great stinking swell. There was nothing she could ...more

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“-- because love is a critical ingredient in the fireman's code, which demands that you are willing to risk your life for your fire-house brothers.”
― David Halberstam, Firehouse

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“There once was a very great American surgeon named Halsted. He was married to a nurse. He loved her—immeasurably. One day Halsted noticed that his wife’s hands were chapped and red when she came back from surgery. And so he invented rubber gloves. For her. It is one of the great love stories in medicine. The difference between inspired medicine and uninspired medicine is love.
When I met Ana, I knew:
I loved her to the point of invention.”
― Sarah Ruhl, The Clean House

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