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Linda Tirado

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author, writer, photographer. backwards in heels and half blind to boot. absolutely no time for your bullshit but all the time in the world if you need a friend

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Story Thirty-Nine

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By Linda Tirado
| Substack
Getting ready to die is just as dramatic as it seems in the movies. There’s a lot of opera in the background while you try to take care of the paperwork, of the last details, of the tiny things that you’ve left to the last minute, the things only you can take care of but that would be a burden if you left them behind. And at the same time, none of it matters. Why bother paying a bill or sweeping a floor or leaving a note? It’s not for your own sake.
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Why I Make Terrible Decisions, or, poverty thoughts

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By Linda Tirado
| archive.org
There's no way to structure this coherently. They are random observations that might help explain the mental processes. But often, I think that we look at the academic problems of poverty and have no idea of the why. We know the what and the how, and we can see systemic problems, but it's rare to have a poor person actually explain it on their own behalf. So this is me doing that, sort of. Rest is a luxury for the rich.
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Why I Make Terrible Decisions, or, poverty thoughts

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By Linda Tirado
| archive.org
There's no way to structure this coherently. They are random observations that might help explain the mental processes. But often, I think that we look at the academic problems of poverty and have no idea of the why. We know the what and the how, and we can see systemic problems, but it's rare to have a poor person actually explain it on their own behalf. So this is me doing that, sort of. Rest is a luxury for the rich.
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