Jen Gilman Porat 

Writer of personal essays & memoir. Driven by uncertainty. Obsessed with time and memory. Former psychotherapist/LCSW. Bucket List: Dance with John Travolta.
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Where Do Our Essays Go? What Happens When They Return Back to Us?

Tormenting Jewish students, blocking them from attending class, and promoting their genocide is not free speech.

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When you come back to a place where you lived many years before, you see people in the metro, at coffee bars, who you once knew.

Except you don't.

Your mind does not add the additional 15 years of aging, more lines, more white hair. They are someone else. They are hauntingly similar reminders of what was.

I do a double-take and move on. It's nice not to see you again.