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The Woods Are Burning, Ascent, November 12.
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About the Editor
CHERYL STRAYED, editor, is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Wild, the New York Times bestseller Tiny Beautiful Things, and the novel Torch. Strayed’s writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the Washington Post Magazine, Vogue, Allure, the Missouri Review, the Sun, the Rumpus—where she has written the popular “Dear Sugar” column since 2010—and elsewhere.
Footnotes
1. Some of the victims’ names have been changed.
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2. Among friends, I almost always refer to it as such. To do otherwise would endow it with undue weight.
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3. Radiation’s baldness is true baldness, since hair falls out at the roots. No sign of its former inhabitant.
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