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I was born in Korea and left before my first birthday.
Mary H.K. Choi
BirthdayBornFirstLeftI Was Born
In New York, you collect a thousand encounters a year, a passel of handshakes, a zillion air-kisses, and boatloads of business cards that you pitch into your purse and eventually deposit your chewing gum into. Amid this break-neck montage of glancing contacts, I'm tormented by the constant thrumming fear of being fingered as a flake.
FearBusinessNew YorkYearYouNew
Home is where I climb out of my mecha-suit-of-a-poised-persona and power down.
HomePowerClimbDownOutWhere
Home is where my house pants live. And they're hideous.
HomeLiveHousePantsWhereHideous
Twenty-thirteen was the year I got super into SoulCycle.
YearGotSuper
Nothing beats SoulCycle for dumbing all the way out or re-calibrating a mood in less than an hour, which is reassuring, since I typically wake up in a panic that's candy-coated with a low-grade rage.
Wake UpMoodNothingWayRageOut
SoulCycle feels gross, is gross, and I'm grateful to have found it.
GratefulFoundFeelsGross
I love small-business owners, and I actually love the idea of vintage clothing, but I don't get when they pretend that the Internet doesn't exist or that other customers have never been to the whole rest of the country where you can rummage around and buy the same dang belt for a buck and a half.
LoveVintageRestInternetYouSame
'Avatar' is staggering. It's seismic. Evolutionarily speaking, it is cladogenesis in a thunderclap.
SpeakingAvatarStaggering
A fanboy's heart is filled with love, enthusiasm, and insecurity.
LoveHeartInsecurityEnthusiasm
If there was a button that I could push that would agog my brain to the level that I felt first seeing 'Avatar' in its entirety and another one for food pellets, I would die of starvation.
FoodBrainPushDieSeeingFirst
I do not care for musicals. In fact, I hate them.
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