This Is Us

I Miss Eavesdropping

It really is the little things, apparently

Samantha Zabell
Human Parts
Published in
4 min readApr 3, 2020

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AA few weeks ago, I was at a crowded restaurant with two friends, sharing a pizza and attempting to focus on their stories while simultaneously trying to understand why the woman two tables away was crying.

It’s surreal how that entire sentence doesn’t… exist right now. Crowded restaurant…

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Samantha Zabell
Human Parts

Audience development strategist, previously at Medium, Time Inc., Real Simple