The Other Maine

The Other Maine

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The Concord bus is fine. It’s fine!

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Emily Burnham
Aug 12, 2025
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It was a look. Late 2000, I think. York Hall, University of Maine.

I beat a rather hasty retreat back to the bus station in Providence that morning. I’d arrived there three nights prior, in order to meet in person for the first time an internet friend at her dorm at the Rhode Island School of Design. We first met online a few years prior, in a chatroom f…

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