Tag: nyc

• hugo

  Hugo Osman was a zookeeper, Secretary to the Minister of Agriculture, a film projectionist, with my mom guarding the celluloid rolls, who only liked country and classical, and sold his paintings for extra cash. He taught my mom to paint who taught me to paint. He was a racehorse jockey during the week, and a…

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• sos judi dench

  The first time I caught my father lying was when I was around 10 years old. It was whatever year that the Razr flip phone was considered sleek and cutting edge. I remember wanting to be just like him. Talk like him, in a corporate American accent far from my mom’s tousled English. Travel like…

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