This Is Us

What’s Keeping Me Going Is You

Isolation has made me realize how vital human connections are

Timothy Kreider
Human Parts
Published in
7 min readApr 27, 2020

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A photo of a rooftop party with garland lights.
Photo: AleksandarNakic/Getty Images

This month I was to have celebrated an occasion I’ve been looking forward to for 25 years: a return trip to the city of Rethymnou, on the island of Crete, where, in April of 1995, I was stabbed in the throat. A dozen of my best friends had agreed to join me there for…

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Timothy Kreider
Human Parts

Tim Kreider is the author of two essay collections, and a frequent contributor to Medium and The New York Times. He lives in NYC and the Chesapeake Bay area.