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Leaving, I discovered, did not cure my displacement, but rather reinforced it.

— Ayelet Tsabari The Art of Leaving (2019)

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I'm just about to cross the street to Café Rimon when I see Natalie sitting on the shaded patio and my heart skips, trips and falls over itself.

Writing in a second language...is like wearing someone else's skin, an act akin to religious conversion.

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I know about death…Our country is haunted by its dead, weighed down by loss and remembrance.

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Home became the liminal space in between-between identities, between cultures, between languages- and I was content claiming that space as my own, pleased to be different.

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Israel is a very small place, as you know, there’s something that can feel very familial about it, which is both positive and not so positive at different times and different instances.

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