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Welcome to Life on a Fault Line, my newsletter. These are personal essays written from the wreckage and the rebuilding — honest writing about grief, the dissolution of my marriage, the strange consolation of music, and what it takes to survive and live through all of it. A black and white portrait of Will Foster-Schmidt

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