#Ling Ma

What I didn’t say was: I know you too well. You live your life too idealistically. You think it’s possible to opt out of

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It was the anonymity. He wanted to be unknown, unpossessed by others’ knowledge of him. That was freedom.

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We were brand strategists and property lawyers and human resources specialists and personal finance consultants. We didn’t

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The city was so big. It lulled you into thinking that there were so many options, but most of the options had to do with

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She prayed, at first imitating others during group prayers, and then eventually on her own, alone in the basement apartment.

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The future is more exponentially exploding rents. The future is more condo buildings, more luxury housing bought by

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The first place you live alone, away from your family, is the first place you become a person, the first place you

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