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Julia Rajagopalan

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The Unredacted Files of a 62-Year-Old Backpacker

Submitted to Contest #315

CW: References to substance use As I clean vomit off a 19-year-old’s drunken face, I think about why I left my old life. I left because I didn’t want to spend the rest of my life cleaning bodily fluids off other people’s children. My daughter would laugh if she could see me now.The girl on the bunk next to me is wasted, but she’ll live. I raised two teenagers, after all, and once upon a time, I even was one. I prop her up on her side and again wonder what I’m doing in a hostel in Amsterdam.“Thank you, Gwendolyn,” Jade mumbles as I shove he...

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