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K. E. Ellingson

K. E. Ellingson lives in Seattle, Washington, reads a lot, and wears black much of the time, mostly because it’s slimming. She’d like to go to the Lofoten Islands.

— From April 1999
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

Before And After

Every day of the month before I committed suicide, I listened to Pink Floyd’s The Wall and was perfectly happy. It focused the mind wonderfully to know that, barring a miracle, in four weeks, then three, then two, I would no longer exist.

April 1999
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