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A Year in Reading: Eric Nguyen

In 2020, I stopped journaling. With everything happening that year, life didn’t seem as observable. Every day, the pandemic raged on. I stayed at home. There were no dinners with friends or readings to attend. It felt too depressing to write down.

But in 2021, I made it a goal to get back into journaling because I felt I would miss out on a lot of memories, even if those memories were simply another mundane day—for what is life but

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