SpaceX launched another classified National Reconnaissance Office payload from California late Monday, adding a 13th mission to the agency's fast-growing proliferated satellite architecture.
My sister and I have been, for about fifteen years now, in a particular kind of estrangement that neither of us, at any point, made any visible decision to enter.
I noticed something last week, on a Sunday afternoon in Bangkok, that I have not been able to put down since.
There is a particular kind of adult who, when they walk into a familiar diner, does not look at the menu.
There is a particular kind of memory that many adults from praise-scarce households carry, and that almost none of them, in any ordinary conversation, ever describe out loud.
You probably know one. The mother who still does her thirty-five-year-old son's laundry.
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