![]() I considered reading my book, but by the time I looked up from my phone, my stop had appeared and I was spat out into the sticky night. I scrolled mindlessly through Instagram, feeling bored with my self-deprecation as I compared my body to the influencers' bodies peacocking on my screen, knowing they were making a buck or two as I sucked my belly in an inch or two. ![]() More notifications appeared: Trump tweeted something harmful and distracting, and four news outlets wanted me to know. On my way home to write this review of Jia Tolentino's collection of essays, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion, my phone lit up to notify me that my monthly student loan payment had been accepted, making a mosquito-sized dent in the Goliath swamp of my student debt. ![]()
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