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Meredith Boe

Chicago
As seen in: Chicago Reader, InHerSight Blog, Chicago Review of Books, TulsaPeople, Racket, The Pickup (Tulsa, OK), Midbrow
Writer & editor // Author of WHAT CITY from @APaperNautilus.
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My Aunt From Minnesota Died 51 Years Ago. Decades Later, a Stranger Showed Up Claiming They Were In Love.

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By Meredith Boe
| Racket Verified
This story was originally published by our Tulsa, Oklahoma-based friends at The Pickup. You can send them a tip, subscribe to them, or just learn more about their publication here. One of my aunts, Kate Minar, died this past March, a few weeks away from her 82nd birthday. She was a nun for over 50 years and lived at Assisi Heights in Rochester, Minnesota, which is the motherhouse for the Sisters of St. Francis.
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My Aunt Died In 1975. A Stranger Showed Up Decades Later Claiming They Were In Love.

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By Meredith Boe
| The Pickup (Tulsa, OK) Verified
One of my aunts, Kate Minar, died last March, a few weeks away from her 82nd birthday. She was a nun for over 50 years and lived at Assisi Heights in Rochester, Minnesota, which is the motherhouse for the Sisters of St. Francis. Kate was the second-oldest of seven Minar kids, and when I went to the funeral, all my mom’s living siblings were there: four other sisters and a brother.
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Finding Meaning in the Lives of Visionaries in Maria Popova’s ‘Traversal’

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By Meredith Boe
| Chicago Review of Books Verified
The pull to write a novel or poem, the incentive to conduct an experiment that leads to a discovery, stems from an iteration of the same basic questions, however refined—what is the meaning of life? Why are we here? What are we made of? It’s refreshing to engage with a work that directly breaks down such impossibly complex yet fundamental human inquiries by looking at what we have accomplished.
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