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Evie's avatar

going to recreate the falling in love montage with my friends bc elizabeth st garden at dawn??? perfect.

Kendall Waldman's avatar

There’s no one I’d rather live out the montage with than my friends.

Paige Good's avatar

IM THERE

Serenateresas's avatar

Oh my god it hurts so bad (amazing read I loved it)

Kendall Waldman's avatar

Hurts so right ❤️

JT Kaufman's avatar

This is really exceptional

Kendall Waldman's avatar

Thank you so much

Alison Stiel's avatar

i’m obsessed with your brain

Sandy SooHoo's avatar

I can’t explain but this was medicine to me lolol 🥰 also thank u for our second unit shout out happy to personally help u crew up 😚

Kendall Waldman's avatar

Babe, when I make a movie I will NEED you

Sophie Ricciardi's avatar

What a fun piece - really loved reading it and got a few spots to add to my own city hit list for the summer (esp. the gardens at the ford foundation!) Suddenly I feel I too need a big grand reunion at the prospect park boathouse??

Kendall Waldman's avatar

The Ford Foundation is so special! Just remember to fill out that form 24 hours in advance and then bring a book and revel!

Isabella Reiter's avatar

this was so insanely incredibly

Kendall Waldman's avatar

*blushing* fun?

Eliana Arian's avatar

couldn’t have loved this more♥️ and I miss b&h w all my heart !

Kendall Waldman's avatar

When I meditate and am asked to imagine a happy place, it is b&h

Allie Oops 🤠's avatar

Obsessed with this

Kendall Waldman's avatar

Obsessed with you

Averageprodigy's avatar

Hudson feature in the love montage plz

Kendall Waldman's avatar

So real. But Hudson needs its own guide.

Jack Williamson's avatar

Wow! What a gifted writer...fascinating and wonderful!

Kendall Waldman's avatar

Thank you so much for reading Jack! We’re overdue for a visit.

Park Bach's avatar

> She boards the tram to see her eccentric auntie who has lived on Roosevelt Island since “before the wall fell.”

I want this to be a reference to "Biography of X". It's not, but it could have been.

> They’d meet at the Fountain Pen Hospital on a work day,

I feel both seen and called out, all at once.

> The Labrador Duck, The Peregrine Falcon, whooping cranes, condors, songbirds. They’re little dioramas. Birds are the creatures we have borrowed the language of love from.

It's fascinating to think that many of the dioramas on display at the AMNH were created by prominent taxidermists from the turn of the century who were well connected to Teddy Roosevelt and the first modern conservationists (John Bell, in particular). It often has me thinking about how the modern understanding of conservationism is plagued by a purity politic incapable of considering a symbiotic relationship between humans and the nature they want to preserve.