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Brooke Yanaga
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“His texts also consist of theoretical food offerings, and in them, I hear how the women in his family have loved him. Here, have peanuts and buffalo milk, he texts me. Have black tea with fresh mint. Come eat pickled lemons from my hand. Have tomatoes with cumin. Are you happy? I am trying to please you with the little I have. Here, have grapes. Have a chocolate croissant.”
— Feb 09, 2026 12:10PM
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“When I first told my father I was going to Cairo, he changed the subject, pretended not to have heard me…He cleared his throat, as though fatherhood had just been declared carcinogenic, and he wanted nothing to do with it. He was doing a cleanse, he was detoxing: he had given up gluten, and dairy, and daughters.”
hating the questions between chapters, giving horrible instagram poet (so sorry).
— Feb 05, 2026 02:54PM
hating the questions between chapters, giving horrible instagram poet (so sorry).
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“More than anything, what binds people to one another here is the pointless struggle for quality of life. I’m learning, slowly, that having money and the option to leave frays any claim I have to this place. It turns out, to be clean in Egypt is just to be free of Egypt. To exercise the choice to stay or go elsewhere, which most of the population cannot do.”
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