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kate's avatar

Sara, I need to know how it came to be that you are living in an abandoned school... is it a former boarding school? Convent? Where do you cook? Shower? Do others live there? So many questions... Can't wait for you to write about the deets :)

...and going GF in 2012 (without a celiac dx, but lots of the symptoms) changed my life in all the best ways. I can send you lots of encouragement if you are going sans gluten. xoxo

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Sara Zarr's avatar

It's the school where G teaches. It used to be a boarding school (like in the 1960s), and there are still some small faculty apartment around the campus. Ours is the only one inside the original school. There is a little galley kitchen and a bathroom :) I know GF has been good for you and your migraines. What other symptoms did you have and how long did it take for you to know for sure it was gluten that made the difference? Feel free to email this rather than posting publicly! I'm at my same old address.

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Kristan Hoffman's avatar

I just finished reading my first (but certainly not last) book by Emery Lord: WHEN WE COLLIDED, a YA contemp about love and grief and mental health. Highly recommend it.

I'm nearly done with COURAGEOUS CREATIVITY!

And for 2021, I'm looking forward to this newsletter that my friend is launching: https://www.nothingtosay.today/ I met her years ago at the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, and I think her mind is brilliant and strange and fascinating.

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Sara Zarr's avatar

I have heard so much about Emery's books! Thx for the newsletter rec, too :)

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