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Julie Reichert

Julie Reichert writes, teaches, and makes movies in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

— From December 2004
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

All There Is

“Your mother’s amazing,” my friends say. Several of them confide in her. They ask for and receive help from her on their deepest problems. Not me, though. She and I can sit in the same room for hours and barely speak. We’re like the north ends of two magnets, darting apart.

December 2004
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

Moo

We’re at this motel in Kerrville, Texas, where we’ve come so my friend Shulami can receive her next chemo treatment and have the conversation she’s been avoiding with the doctor. She has neglected to tell me that her cancer has spread, despite the most recent course of treatment.

February 2002
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