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Dear Reader,

I’ve spent the last year writing letters to things that can’t write back— to love, to misery, to my dad, to the body I’ve lived in, and the soul I’ve hid from.

These letters bled into poems. And those poems became Dear.

It’s a collection about what it means to exist in the half-light— the quiet, aching spaces between grief and joy, between holding on and letting go.

The letters are restless now. They’ve grown tired of silence. And they’re waiting for you.

Until the ink runs dry, -M.M

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Thierry Mugler, A/W 1995.

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Nick Knight - Shalom Harlow Wearing Givenchy (Vogue UK 1995)

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Cherries At The Cemetery

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Björk's 'Bachelorette' song lyric written in Braille seen tattooed on a woman’s back at a Modest Mouse concert in Toronto (2011) ph. Nadia Prigoda-Lee

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David Montgomery - Vogue UK (April 1967)

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‘Pyromaniac Day’ and ‘Pyromaniac Dead of Night’ (1999) Artist: Yoshitomo Nara

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Helmut Newton - Marie-Christine Deshayes (Playboy 1977)

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Margiela, S/S 1990.

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James Dean photographed by Sanford Roth, 1955

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Yoshitaka Amano

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Yohji Yamamoto: Autumn/Winter (2009)

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Public Editions, 2024.

Ph. Elizaveta Porodina

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me and my mom are more like sisters

we have no parents.

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Engraved Zippo lighters owned by American soldiers during the Vietnam War (1955-1975)