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Jessica Hendry Nelson is a writer and professor who lives in Richmond, Virginia. She was once a contestant on Wheel of Fortune, where she lost to an actual rocket scientist. Her latest book is a memoir titled Joy Rides Through the Tunnel of Grief.
The thing about the apocalypse is that nobody said it would be so beautiful. Spring is letting down her hair. The air is warm, sweet, and clear. Moss drapes over a storm drain, parting for the rush of early-morning runoff. A heavy quiet has descended since we took to our homes, save for the shrieking hawks circling the shuttered strip-mall parking lot next door to my mother’s house outside of Philadelphia.
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