A few days before I left New York, a few weeks before I understood just how much this plague was going to remake the world, my friend Kate gave me a tarot reading. I wasn’t asking about apocalypse; I was asking about the life I was moving into, a life that was by design radically different than the life I have inhabited for the last decade in a city I fell in love with but knew in my heart it was time to leave for a while. Going away had nothing to do with any illness other than the one that has settled over me in the last few years, which I can best describe as pervasive and incapacitating despair.
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A few days before I left New York, a few weeks before I understood just how much this plague was going to remake the world, my friend Kate gave me a tarot reading. I wasn’t asking about apocalypse; I was asking about the life I was moving into, a life that was by design radically different than the life I have inhabited for the last decade in a city I fell in love with but knew in my heart it was time to leave for a while. Going away had nothing to do with any illness other than the one that has settled over me in the last few years, which I can best describe as pervasive and incapacitating despair.