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Handles with care

of photographs of the sunset and outfits of the day, a woman, roughly drawn in pen, is trapped between a glass pane and a curtain. Crouched on the floor, she appears to be using the tension of the pane against her body to lift the curtain or break through the glass, but her efforts are in vain. “The glass is called the past and the curtain is called the future,” explains Liana Finck (@lianafinck), cartoonist, author and contributor, who posted the illustration to Instagram in January and has amassed more than 11,000 likes. “You can walk through the curtain, but you can’t see through it, and you can see through the past [but you can’t access it anymore],” she says. “That felt like it explained something to

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