sonder
noun
the realization that each passerby has a life as vivid and complex as your own
On the tube, rush hour. A woman in red reading a letter, tears rolling silently. I will never know what it said.
London, November
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the realization that each passerby has a life as vivid and complex as your own
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vel·li·chor
vellichor
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the strange wistfulness of used bookshops
A signed copy of someone else's favourite book. To: Margaret, with love always. A whole life in a margin note.
Powell's Books, Portland
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