Are You Going to Screw Us Over at Christmas, Too?

It was the last time I got together with my dad. 7 weeks later he was dead.

Elle Hanley
Human Parts

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Photo by lauren lulu taylor on Unsplash

In November 2020, we were tired. And sad. And scared. And all of the multilayered emotions that go with fatigue, despair and terror. My husband and I decided to spend Thanksgiving, just us and the kids, in a little cabin in the mountains to help keep…

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Elle Hanley
Human Parts

Elle Hanley is a mother and daughter, navigating relationships with the grace of an upended turtle.