The Paper Airplane

The Paper Airplane

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The Paper Airplane
The Paper Airplane
The Courage of Making

The Courage of Making

E. Lily Yu
Dec 02, 2021
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The Courage of Making
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There is—or was, last time I saw—a crooked kind of ladder leaning against the wall of my grandmother’s house, made of peeled hardwood branches held together with wire. I don’t know what wood precisely, but there were poplars nearby. Like so much else in that place, someone there made it by hand, from necessity rather than skill. That ladder had to be st…

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