I often assign my students Brian Arundel’s “The Things I’ve Lost.” The essay is fascinating for its organization (not chronological, not strictly thematic, though there are types of losses that root each paragraph) and I love the way the essay includes both seemingly insignificant things (a taste for soy sausage patties) and much more profound losses.
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