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A Year in Review

A Year in Review

Remembering what it is to be me

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Samuél Lopez-Barrantes
Mar 30, 2023
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I took the above photo the first day I arrived in Los Angeles in January. I felt a lot of things about being back in the USA. Fragmentation and identity and self-perception had a lot to do with it.

I’ve written1 and thought a lot about this question of self-perception and identity since my return. Because it’s not that I haven’t felt like myself in the p…

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