{"id":4069,"date":"2018-06-22T01:40:10","date_gmt":"2018-06-22T01:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/22\/the-soft-truth-fiction-by-leigh-alexander\/"},"modified":"2018-06-22T01:40:10","modified_gmt":"2018-06-22T01:40:10","slug":"the-soft-truth-fiction-by-leigh-alexander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/22\/the-soft-truth-fiction-by-leigh-alexander\/","title":{"rendered":"‘The Soft Truth’, fiction by Leigh Alexander"},"content":{"rendered":"

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F<\/span>or the past few weeks, I\u2019m pretty sure I\u2019ve been seeing another me. Wednesday afternoon I left my apartment to walk to the train and I saw her\u200a\u2014\u200ame\u200a\u2014\u200acrossing the intersection at the top of the hill, walking briskly. Then over the weekend I was washing dishes and staring out the window, just spacing out, and she was crossing the park, a shape appearing and disappearing among trees. I couldn\u2019t get a good look.<\/p>\n

I know you\u2019re thinking it can\u2019t be, that it must just be someone who looks like me. I\u2019ll admit that none of the clothes I see her wearing are mine, but they\u2019re similar\u200a\u2014\u200alike when I saw her jogging near the gate at the foot of the hill in the park, she was wearing a fleece exactly like my mint one, but purple. In fact, when I saw her the first time, barely a speck in the distance boarding a bus, I thought: <\/span>I\u2019d buy that handbag<\/i>. And then: <\/span>oh my gosh, that\u2019s me.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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For the past few weeks, I\u2019m pretty sure I\u2019ve been seeing another me. Wednesday afternoon I left my apartment to walk to the train and I saw her\u200a\u2014\u200ame\u200a\u2014\u200acrossing the intersection at the top of the hill, walking briskly. Then over the weekend I was washing dishes and staring out the window, just spacing out, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-13D","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}