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Best of 2022: Personal Essays

by Longreads December 8, 2022December 9, 2022

Five notable personal essays published this year, on friendship, loss, war, endings, and metaphors.

Grinnell Point in Glacier National Park highlighted by an eerily-red light.

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‘That Girl is Going to Get Herself Killed’

by Krista Diamond November 15, 2022July 12, 2023

Krista Diamond | Longreads | November 2022 | 16 minutes (4,342 words) In 2012, I was working at a hotel in Glacier National Park when a man I’d just met invited me for a day of tubing and drinking beer on the river. Little did I know, I would nearly drown in the rapids. But […]