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At nineteen, I learned how to be wanted.

In South Korea, desire came easily—on dance floors, in love motels, in quiet apartments high above the city. I moved through a world of fleeting encounters, lonely people, and borrowed intimacy, mistaki
This was hardly two months ago, and life is again so different. I wish it weren’t so complicated, that I could just rent an apartment in Mylapore, drink fresh-ground South Indian coffee, and spend my mornings in the temple. Right now, I’m
This essay explores how our earliest ways of relating—to others, to difference, to belonging—shape the paths we walk as adults. It’s a reflection on connection, on boundaries, and on the quiet evolution from rescuing to the ways we
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