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Nostalgia

We are all stars under the same night sky
Chasing after the lightness of youth. Can we ever recapture that feeling again?
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Jenna Park
24
Anticipatory nostalgia: missing the present when it's not yet lost
Past lives, the what ifs, and all the versions of nostalgia at once
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Jenna Park
50
A love letter to New York
When the ghosts of my past collide with my present
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Jenna Park
13
Was Gen X the last generation to have a carefree childhood?
For all the latchkey kids, the cynics, and the slackers.
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Jenna Park
22
A blueberry summer: stories from an art school dropout Ep2
The summer I quit school and worked on a farm in Maine.
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Jenna Park
13
On this Father's Day, a story about wigs, a story about New York
And an excerpt from a short interview with my dad, wig seller to the stars.
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Jenna Park
14
A prologue to a trip. You're putting what in your suitcase?
Travels with my mom pt. 2, in which my middle-aged self meets my childhood self from the 80s.
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Jenna Park
15
The trauma of immigration, and the story behind a name
Names, luck, and destiny, and how I ended up being one of a million Jennifers.
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Jenna Park
17
Reverse gender roles in the kitchen
All the cooks in my life, of which I am not on. Lucking out in the lottery of spouses who love to cook.
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Jenna Park
6
The last conversation with my father
The chronicles of learning a language that was never my first. Oh, and that damn Duolingo owl.
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Jenna Park
19
The melancholy of Christmas
When the holiday season isn't always so joyful for some.
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Jenna Park
10
I once was as an elf at Macy's Santaland
Despite being the "elfiest looking elf" that Macy's had ever hired, my career as an elf came crashing down one day.
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Jenna Park
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