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All articles filed in Norman Erikson Pasaribu

personal essaysJanuary 12, 2023February 2, 2023

About My Mother (and Other Things in Parentheses)

Norman Erikson Pasaribu on a mother’s choice and how writing saved them

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writing the pastJune 19, 2018

Against the ignorant sun

The first gay couple I ever saw in real life was a pair of Dutch film festival co-directors who visited Pasar Rawalumbu, a market where my mother ran a kiosk selling clothes.

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