Ellie's Brain

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  • Time Capsule

    1/13/24 “I’m so proud of you,” my high school friend, Bella, said through tears as they squeezed me tight and lifted me a few inches off the ground. I couldn’t help it; I cried a little too.  I had just graduated college, one and a half years earlier than the rest of my class. This…

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  • Is it only okay to do while you’re a kid?

    At my old public pool, it was well known amongst me and my friends that if one of us had to pee, we would be doing so on the big blue slide. For some reason, it seemed far more sanitary to slide down alongside our piss rather than let it out in the middle of…

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  • The closing of a chapter, the one where I have a dog in it

    Pretty much the day I touched down in the States– after a long flight from Amsterdam involving lots of spilled apple juice– I received a message from a housesitting app I occasionally use while traveling. The message was from a lady named Caitlin, and she wrote: “Hi Ellie, I know this is a last minute…

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  • Angels don’t just exist in the sky, they walk their huskies at night

    Today was one of those days that just felt off for no one reason in particular. I chalk it up to the fact that December 28th is looming ahead; the day that my beloved dog of five years gets re-homed to the luckiest family in the world. As the days pass, I feel myself flitting…

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  • Montréal, Mittens, and Mormon Wives

    It began with a 9 hour drive to Massachusetts, at the beginning of which I sent up a little prayer that I wouldn’t feel like falling asleep. I’m prone to hallucinating on long drives when I get tired, which sometimes leads me to see a group of giant spools of thread rolling towards me on…

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