How to Have Fun in the Apocalypse

How to Have Fun in the Apocalypse

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How to Have Fun in the Apocalypse
How to Have Fun in the Apocalypse
Saying Goodbye to Nana

Saying Goodbye to Nana

On my Nana and grandparents and how we are all just like dogs.

Zoe Keziah Mendelson
Oct 19, 2023
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One morning last year, my Nana sat at her kitchen table, staring into space, holding a pile of pills in her hand. We’d eaten countless peanut butter toasts with blueberries at that table. Now she was too sick to make toast and I had to watch her take her pills, make sure she took them all, make the toast. “Put the pills in your mouth, Nana,” I said. “Oh…

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