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Turning 30 in Bushwick

All your friends swear you look 26 at most.

Turning 30 in Bushwick

Turning 30 in Bushwick

All your friends swear you look 26 at most.

Turning 30 in Bushwick
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Jeremy Nguyen

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So you turned 30.

It crept on you almost unnoticeably while you swooshed down Jefferson on a bike.

You turned 30 while you were smashed against some six bodies in the 8:30 a.m. L train. You turned 30 while like Ulysses you roamed from Alaska to The Johnson’s. You turned 30 while an airborne droplet of your sweat vanished to steam before it touched a melting roof on a Bushwick summer afternoon.

You turned 30 while you were making commitments as small as a right swipe and as big as signing a two-year lease to freeze the rent on your Bushwick apartment…

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