TheBanyanTree: Fiddling

[Teague, Julie Anna]

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> Runner's foot problems: toenails coming off, hideous large callouses, blisters, blisters under callouses. I complained to a writer friend that I couldn't write anymore. Everything is too personal, and I want to say something that feels universal, that strikes a chord. "The more personal it is, the more universal it is," she told me. So I present to you my sad runner's feet and their problems. Sitting on the edge of the tub in a stranger's apartment I've rented for a few days in New York, I concentratedly poke and cut and peel away at the latest crustaceous insult while Rome burns just 5 feet north of there. 
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> Julie