How You Lose Your Edge (and How to Find It Again)

“We waste our lives trying to recreate these zones of safety, which are always falling apart.”

Kristin Wong
Forge
Published in
5 min readJun 14, 2021

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Photo by Jay Mantri on Unsplash

Late one evening, my best friend and I walk home to my small apartment in Hollywood when two men emerge from the sidewalk and point guns at our bellies. Don’t scream, they say. It’ll be okay, as long as we don’t scream. My…

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Kristin Wong
Forge
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Kristin Wong has written for the New York Times, The Cut, Catapult, The Atlantic and ELLE.