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I went to a mid-level UC school but maybe could have gotten into Berkeley if I had tried harder. I’ll need you to meet me at about that same level. I’d love it if you taught me things about the world but if you ever respond to my lack of knowledge with a condescending “You don’t know…/ haven’t heard of…” I’ll push you into the rising sea levels of the Pacific Ocean.

A lot about writing is hard. Starting a piece is hard. Ending a piece is hard. Doing research can be tough. Figuring out a structure for a story is nearly impossible. The one thing I’ve always found easy is finding the confidence that the story was worthwhile and that it was important to write it.

We should be in the same bracket of hotness, but I’m above you (not height-wise — see expectation #2). Your friends should think “wow, how did you land such a beautiful girl?” while still recognizing that our attractiveness levels are fairly compatible. Make sense?

On a scale of Rihanna’s “Only Girl (In the World)” to Rihanna’s “Work,” you better make me work, work, work, work, work for your love and attention. I don’t make the rules. My years of unexamined attachment issues do.

That confidence is fundamental. In fact, I couldn’t do what I do without it. I write a lot of stories that, at first glance, seem non-essential: Profiles of orchid poachers, dog actors, decades-old library fires, chicken farming, ten-year-old suburban kids, girls who like to surf. These stories are not burning up the newswire; great matters of state will not be affected by them. To me, though, they’re meaningful stories. They document the human experience, and peer into other lives, and reveal truths about who we are, and illustrate the richness of humanity, and are sometimes just fun to read, and are sometimes going to make you cry, and always, I hope, deepen the readers’ knowledge of lives outside their own.

You each accept your partner for who they are. You want the best for each other and you go out of your way to help your partner achieve their plans and dreams — but not at the cost of yourself. You are free to be and do what you want — together or independently. And, ironically, that makes you want to stay.

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It’s important that I feel like a little spoon at all times, which requires at least a five-inch height difference. This will allow me to gain a bit of weight (something I can do but you probably shouldn’t) and still feel small in comparison.

I went to a mid-level UC school but maybe could have gotten into Berkeley if I had tried harder. I’ll need you to meet me at about that same level. I’d love it if you taught me things about the world but if you ever respond to my lack of knowledge with a condescending “You don’t know…/ haven’t heard of…” I’ll push you into the rising sea levels of the Pacific Ocean.

We don’t believe in God in this relationship, but we do believe in generational guilt, brisket, and saying “Did you know that he/she is Jewish?” every time a member of the tribe makes an appearance on our television screen.

When I start working on a story or book, I am absolutely enflamed with certainty about it — I am convinced that it absolutely has to be written. More precisely, I am convinced that I have to write it, right away. I don’t know where I find that confidence, but I know I’m lucky to have it, and I honestly don’t think I could write these things if I weren’t entirely sure of them. I’m sure that when I approach editors and I pitch the story with that kind of certainty, it overrides whatever doubts they might have about the subject. Did The New Yorker need a story about taxidermy? No, but when I first heard about the World Taxidermy Championship, I knew I had to write about it, and I approached my editor with fierce determination, and I think I simply bowled him over with my resolve and optimism about it.

You feel trapped, stuck. You feel like your relationship is limiting your life. You’re not happy with your partner — and they’re not with you. You both want to change things about the other so the relationship is going nowhere — fast.

I don’t trust people that don’t like kids and I don’t completely trust myself to have them. On the off chance we do have little baby alien humans, you must be a magnificent father because I will be a mediocre mother at best.

No matter what, you know your partner to be in your corner with a hug, a coffee, a kind word. When you’re spinning out over something, they’ll help you see the reality of the situation. And they can count on you — always.

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