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Finding Love in a Hopeless Place: Searching for the “Romantic” in Stock Photography

  • Posted on February 24, 2017April 4, 2019
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edited by KELLEY KIDD What do you think of when you think of the word “romantic?” In the world of modern dating, swiping left and right has become a ubiquitous element…
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Interview with Marissa Anita

  • Posted on February 24, 2017April 4, 2019
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SWEDIAN LIE In this issue we talk to Indonesian journalist and actress Marissa Anita about her most recent — and critically acclaimed role — in the Indonesian independent film Istirahatlah…
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The Allure of the Foreign: Travel and the Romance of Being Away

  • Posted on February 24, 2017April 4, 2019
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MATT WAGNER There is little in life that we so regularly regard with a sense of romance as travel. This is even more so for foreign travel, which for our…
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From Conquests to Chivalry: The Story of French, the Romantic Romance Language

  • Posted on February 24, 2017April 4, 2019
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TENAYA CAMPBELL Spoken by more than 200 million people worldwide, French is one of the most widely used languages in the world. For hundreds of years, it was the main…
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Teaching Matters of the Heart

  • Posted on February 24, 2017April 4, 2019
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NORA ROSENGARTEN 10,000 – 8,000 B.C.E. European Cro-Magnon Hunters draw the shape of the symbolic heart. The exact significance remains unknown. A Cro-Magnon pictogram from before the last Ice Age…
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Letter to a Teenage Girl

  • Posted on February 24, 2017April 4, 2019
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KELLEY KIDD To Future Me, I get through my days by listening to music. I escape into it, and hidden between my headphones, my mind is safe to be itself.…
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My Precious: Attachment to the Romantic

  • Posted on February 24, 2017April 4, 2019
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In this issue of SixByEight Press, we’re exploring notions of ‘romanticism’ as a philosophy and method of preserving and performing the desires and wishes of our dramatic selves. The narrative…
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