Meet Me at the Vanishing Point

Another version of me has dirt under her fingernails

Terrye Turpin
Human Parts
Published in
3 min readMay 28, 2019

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Photo: Geri Lavrov/Photographer’s Choice/Getty Images Plus

IfIf another me exists in another universe, I picture her clad in a red gingham dress or blue denim overalls. She toils on a farm surrounded by corn and cows. This is the life I might have lived, had I followed the advice of a career aptitude test from my high school days. My life’s work decided by the 17-year-old me, while I…

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