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Grey Dirty Greasy Dishwater

Laura Linger

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My favorite analogy for my most loathed foe: depression

I’ve been bipolar my entire life. There. I said it.

I was finally diagnosed in the summer of 2000. This came after I spent three days of pacing, vomiting, more pacing, shaking, trembling, and not making any sort of real sense as I babbled to myself. I was convinced that my brain stopped working, at least in service to me. I babbled…

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Laura Linger

Writer, wife, cat mother. I know too much about Jonestown and the Nixon presidency. I love red lipstick and The Beatles. Neurodivergent. I could live on sushi.