On my eighteenth birthday, a letter appeared on my desk. Across the envelope were the words: OPEN WHEN YOU WANT TO KNOW HOW EVERYTHING TURNS OUT. Underneath: FROM YOURSELF, AGE 50. Obviously,
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The letter arrived on a Tuesday. That annoyed me immediately. If my future self had discovered time travel, the least she could have done was make it happen on a more dramatic
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POSTMARKED 2046 The envelope appeared between the electricity bill and an advertisement for a new supermarket. My name was handwritten across it. Not unusual. The strange part was the handwriting. It was
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My name looks different depending on who writes it. On my school notebook, it appears in English. My grandfather writes it in his language. My neighbour writes it in another script entirely.
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My grandmother speaks English perfectly well. She simply refuses to use it for certain things. “What’s the English word for this?” I once asked while she was serving dinner. She looked at
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You walk past a bakery. For one second, you smell something familiar. Suddenly you are eight years old again. You remember a kitchen. A person. A holiday. Maybe even a feeling you
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Try reading this article without yawning. That sentence may already have made you think about doing it. Someone across the classroom yawns. A few seconds later, another person yawns. Then someone else
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