Chelsea Hood

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“Crying on a stoop in stuyvesant.” by Chelsea Hood

Submitted to Contest #85

Sometimes, the only vindication for this train is that it rides through the sunset so damn well. Hi, my name is Clarita. I grew up in New York City. I found my way into the world via my mother, in a Brooklyn basement. She was a postal worker for 30 years. She's seen the most of the least, and the least of the most. Me? I've been crying on a stoop in Stuyvesant for every night of sacrifice, for those lives who aren't even mine. that's the thing about New York. our tears are never our own. They roll out of us, often in silence, into the ...

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