Rachel Jepsen

• 60 DAYS

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• Whatever it is you thought you saw, things change. Your life
• changes. I am not a bet, a swell, a panic.
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• To say that I am in mourning is an absurdity. I have never
• known the kind of death that death is.
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• The bird is what it is and will remain so. There is nothing to
• love but the word for it.
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• Remind yourself that the machine spin of a beetle on its back
• is not frantic, it is functioning.
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• I have lost my ability to ridicule. I saw a couple holding
• hands and thought: how kind of them.
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RACHEL JEPSEN holds an MFA from the University of Montana. She works as a writer and editor and travels full-time, living out of a retired Forest Service Ford with her husband and their dog, Utah.