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Amber Heard and the Problem of Perfect Victims
TW: domestic abuse Even if you are not regularly on social media it will have been difficult avoid hearing about the Depp/Heard defamation hearing…
Dr Brooke Magnanti
May 20
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Monster in a Box
"I just accepted that as a part of my life, accepted that forever I would always be a little in the place that I was not.." Spalding Gray
Dr Brooke Magnanti
Nov 17, 2021
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One Shot
Some of my regulars, the couple with early dementia, have a crime fiction and thriller library of frankly mind-boggling size. It’s larger than some…
Dr Brooke Magnanti
Jul 16, 2021
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Tilting at Windmills
This is another part where I have to admit I’m bad at telling a chronological story. So, the first time I went to Florida after Dad died, we got a…
Dr Brooke Magnanti
Jul 2, 2021
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Sixteen Tons
I live in the hills behind a former company town. A two-lane county highway that bisects the village in the valley below us is lined with batt-and-board…
Dr Brooke Magnanti
Jun 18, 2021
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Reruns
I arrived at the address given to me by the cleaning app, guided there by Google Maps which signs me in on arrival. There's a locked gate. I check the…
Dr Brooke Magnanti
May 28, 2021
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The Box
So I was not entirely truthful when I said we threw out or burned everything from inside of Dad’s house, because there was one thing. It’s the box. Back…
Dr Brooke Magnanti
May 21, 2021
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Blood Will Out
The clients are a young married couple, born about the time I graduated from college for the first time. On the up and up. The condo is decorated in…
Dr Brooke Magnanti
May 7, 2021
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Packed lunches
The client lives in one of those new suburbs on the edge of a city south of us. Long straight roads named for ranches whose families, one assumes, sold…
Dr Brooke Magnanti
Apr 30, 2021
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Why I’m (still) here
Well, this is going to be awkward. In the last few weeks I’ve had a number of people unsubscribe from this newsletter. The ones who have left a comment…
Dr Brooke Magnanti
Apr 23, 2021
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Pond Skimming
The mountain where I joined ski patrol is owned and operated by a father and son duo who live in a nearby city and whose main source of income is…
Dr Brooke Magnanti
Apr 16, 2021
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Leisure Time
When I met them they seemed like any other couple enjoying retirement. A modest 3/2 bungalow tucked away in a sunny spot on the edge of high desert and…
Dr Brooke Magnanti
Apr 9, 2021
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