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What We May Never Know
It was a Saturday morning, and I sat on the fine granules of sand, just as the sun came over the horizon. The sun, slowly but surely,...
Vivian Li
Jan 12, 20245 min read
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I Write
Some people love to dance, or to sing, or to draw, or to watch videos on YouTube, or movies on Netflix; but I am one of the few people...
Vivian Li
Jan 12, 20243 min read
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Cigars: All About Community
It was a hot and slightly humid afternoon in early May, as I made my way up to Burn by Rocky Patel cigar lounge in Atlanta at The...
Vivian Li
Jan 8, 20245 min read
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Work Hard, Have Faith and Dream
(TW: SA Paragraphs 9-11) If you had a beautiful home, a white picket fence, a family with a son and a daughter and a good-paying job, you...
Vivian Li
Jan 8, 20248 min read
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Hospitality is Going, Going, Gone
It’s Wednesday, 6:30 in the morning, and Trisha Shum reluctantly rolls out of bed. It’s just another day in COVID, she thought. During...
Vivian Li
Jan 8, 20244 min read
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I Write
There are people who love to dance or to sing or to draw or to watch videos on YouTube or movies on Netflix, but I am one of the few...
Vivian Li
Jan 8, 20242 min read
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Packed and Packaged in COVID
It was a Sunday afternoon and it was pouring outside. I was on my way to the Fresh Market up the road to buy groceries, when the weather...
Vivian Li
Jan 8, 20246 min read
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Night Owl
It’s dark, and quiet. One by one, the houses close their eyes, and you feel the families living in them, were finally getting to bed. The...
Vivian Li
Jan 8, 20242 min read
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Let's Dance in the Rain
The clouds roll gently in the hurling gusts of wind. The skies turn from the perfect baby sky blue and into this bleak time bomb that...
Vivian Li
Jan 8, 20242 min read
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Rhetoric of Slow Food
Have you ever stopped to think about the food you eat? Like, where it comes from, the origins of the dish, or the native place of where...
Vivian Li
Jan 8, 202411 min read
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This is For Me
I used to weigh 320 pounds three and a half years ago. My weight loss journey isn’t over yet, but it surprises many people whenever I...
Vivian Li
Jan 8, 20244 min read
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In a Puff of Smoke
When I sit on my patio at eight in the evening and light a cigar, I feel like the world has lifted off of my shoulders. Even if it’s just...
Vivian Li
Jan 8, 20249 min read
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Misogyny and Cigars
It was in the middle of July, right when summer was really kicking in, in Atlanta. I thanked and left my Lyft driver and took in my...
Vivian Li
Jan 8, 202412 min read
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