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In New York, you collect a thousand encounters a year, a passel of handshakes, a zillion air-kisses, and boatloads of business cards that you pitch into your purse and eventually deposit your chewing gum into. Amid this break-neck montage of glancing contacts, I'm tormented by the constant thrumming fear of being fingered as a flake. Mary H.K. Choi

You Business Fear Year Collect Tormented Thousand Constant Gum Purse Contacts New Encounters Chewing Chewing Gum York Pitch New York Being Deposit Your Eventually Cards

Home is where my house pants live. And they're hideous. Mary H.K. Choi

Home Live Pants Hideous House Where

'Avatar' is staggering. It's seismic. Evolutionarily speaking, it is cladogenesis in a thunderclap. Mary H.K. Choi

Staggering Avatar Speaking

Rihanna's boots are too scared to look bad on Rihanna. Mary H.K. Choi

Too Boots Bad Rihanna Scared Look

I have horrible shoe hang-ups. Particularly when it comes to flats. Mary H.K. Choi

Horrible Particularly Shoe Flats

Bieber has taste and pull, which is as important to making quality pop as actual talent. Mary H.K. Choi

Quality Important Talent Making Taste Which Pop Actual Pull

If you are someone's emergency contact - you are their person, and they are your person - there is work involved. Mary H.K. Choi

Work You Someone Emergency Contact Involved Person Your

My sweet spot as a writer and, especially, as an essayist is sub-1500 words. Mary H.K. Choi

Words Sweet Writer Spot Essayist

You always feel like a hack and a fraud when you're writing. It's just how it goes. Mary H.K. Choi

You Writing Fraud Hack Feel Like Always How Goes Just

My brother's in comics. I work in media. Mary H.K. Choi

Work Brother Comics Media

As a consumer, I love superheroes. Mary H.K. Choi

Love Superheroes Consumer

I just love the comics industry. Mary H.K. Choi

Love Industry Comics Just

There's a really generous readership with YA. Mary H.K. Choi

Generous Ya Readership Really

I'm definitely an indoor kid who's turned into an inside person. Mary H.K. Choi

Kid Definitely Inside Indoor Person Turned

The notion of this 'emergency contact' is, Do you have someone who is holding you down? Do you know where to go if you're feeling bad? I keep likening it to assigning yourself a godparent of your choosing. Mary H.K. Choi

You Yourself Feeling Holding Down Bad Someone Emergency Contact Do You Know Know Go Where Your Notion Choosing Who Keep

Texting is incredibly anxiety-laden, but I know people who will have a full-blown panic attack if you call them. I'm one of those nightmare humans where the little mailbox has an ellipsis on it because I have 1000 unread emails. So texting is the most immediate yet least anxious of all the incredibly anxious ways that we talk to each other. Mary H.K. Choi

You People Will Other Incredibly Panic Emails Immediate Ways Those Unread Attack Know Most Talk Call Because Least Texting Anxious Where Little Them Who Each Humans Nightmare

There is so much focus on being self-sufficient, and it makes it very difficult to ask for things. I've been crippled by this notion of high-functioning self-sufficiency. And I see it a lot in younger girls. Asking for help brings people closer in a way that I suspected but didn't actually put into practice. Mary H.K. Choi

People Focus Girl Practice Difficult Way Crippled See Put Makes Been Self-Sufficiency Self-Sufficient Lot Very Closer Suspected Being Younger Ask Much Asking Notion Help Actually Things Brings

The thing about living in New York as a writer is that you hit that age where it feels like everyone has a book all at the same time. It's like that one year where you're invited to twenty weddings. Mary H.K. Choi

I find texting to be kind of a safe space. Mary H.K. Choi

Be Kind Space Kind Find Safe Texting

Your mom is the first person you fall in love with, so it's loaded forever and carries all this baggage. There's almost always a communication barrier in place. In my case it's a language and cultural barrier, but other times, it's because your mother's love is conditional or because you're fundamentally different. Mary H.K. Choi

Love Mom You Love Is Communication Mother Language First Fall Other Carries Case Almost Baggage Because First-Person Always Conditional Cultural Times Forever Person Different Place Your Barrier Fundamentally Loaded

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