No post today but an alert to “The Ones We Sent Away,” by Jennifer Senior, which posted yesterday in The Atlantic. I don’t recall ever being as rocked by an article as I am by this one. Read it, as well as Senior’s other work, including 2021’s “What Bobby McIlvaine Left Behind
I picked up a copy of The Atlantic to read on a flight back from Philly yesterday. (I had been on a work trip and didn't see your note about the piece first.) Just what I wanted... to be crying on a plane. At least I was not in a middle seat. Amazing piece of work.
The Ones We Sent Away
Oh my god, this has me weeping. Oh god.
It was my last free Atlantic article so I was able to save it as a pdf ... now I just have to print out 68 pages to read it :-)
If I was a woman, I would be fangirling over her.
I picked up a copy of The Atlantic to read on a flight back from Philly yesterday. (I had been on a work trip and didn't see your note about the piece first.) Just what I wanted... to be crying on a plane. At least I was not in a middle seat. Amazing piece of work.
Too many linked articles on Substack require paid subscriptions.