Dead Beat: One-sided reflections on divorce, losing a daughter, and letting go
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For about three months in 2016 I slept on a mattress that was on top of a mattress that was on top of a mattress. This creative arrangement came with the room. To make it look a bit more presentable, I covered the bottom two mattresses with a black blanket that I picked up at Ikea on the second of two trips I made out there across a two-week span. On both of those trips I’d broken down sobbing--sitting in the parking lot in my car, and then later inside the store, wandering among neat showcase rooms assembled to suggest that life could be better if one were only better organized.
Dead Beat: One-sided reflections on divorce, losing a daughter, and letting go
Dead Beat: One-sided reflections on divorce…
Dead Beat: One-sided reflections on divorce, losing a daughter, and letting go
For about three months in 2016 I slept on a mattress that was on top of a mattress that was on top of a mattress. This creative arrangement came with the room. To make it look a bit more presentable, I covered the bottom two mattresses with a black blanket that I picked up at Ikea on the second of two trips I made out there across a two-week span. On both of those trips I’d broken down sobbing--sitting in the parking lot in my car, and then later inside the store, wandering among neat showcase rooms assembled to suggest that life could be better if one were only better organized.