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I'm great at leaving. I am less talented at getting left, though I should be better, given how much it's happened.

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For my first job interview out of college, I wore a cream-colored cotton suit with cap sleeves and an inverted box pleat skirt that was appropriate for the late-August heat - and wildly discordant with the Red Hook offices of the graffiti magazine I had called twice to find.

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I cannot quantify the physics of friendships and do not know exactly how much intense pressure can be applied before these glittery, brittle bonds break.

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Pedicures are disgraceful.

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I was born in Korea and left before my first birthday.

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In New York, you collect a thousand encounters a year, a passel of handshakes, a zillion air-kisses, and boatloads of business cards that you pitch into your purse and eventually deposit your chewing gum into. Amid this break-neck montage of glancing contacts, I'm tormented by the constant thrumming fear of being fingered as a flake.

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Home is where I climb out of my mecha-suit-of-a-poised-persona and power down.

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Home is where my house pants live. And they're hideous.

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Twenty-thirteen was the year I got super into SoulCycle.

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Nothing beats SoulCycle for dumbing all the way out or re-calibrating a mood in less than an hour, which is reassuring, since I typically wake up in a panic that's candy-coated with a low-grade rage.

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Biography

Nationality: South Korean

Type: Author

Born: Unknown

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