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  "path": "/cognoscenti/2026/06/05/love-other-monsters-author-queer-identity-emily-franklin",
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  "textContent": "When author Emily Franklin went through her closet before going on book tour, she found a beloved shirt. Her mother had written her name in the collar 40 years prior, saying “That way, it won’t get lost.\" Franklin writes, “But while the shirt did not get lost over all that time, parts of me did.”",
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