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Lindsay Lee Wallace
@lindsaylwallace
Writing about culture & healthcare & other stuff, too @BloodKnifeMag, @SELFmagazine, @Slate, @TeenVogue, @TIME, @XtraMagazine etc. | @DorianAwards member
May 21, 2024 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Five years ago this week on a gorgeous spring day I poured a jug of my mom’s urine into the hydrangeas & graduated from college. Five months later she died & they told me this day—the culmination of all she’d given up to lift me up—helped kill her. Lindsay and her mom Debbie are seen beside one another, outside, looking at one another and chatting, Lindsay is wearing a graduation cap and gown and Debbie is wearing a white cardigan and sitting in a motorized wheelchair I’m still untangling the ableism that convinced us this fracturing was the most our family could have. I still haven't graduated from dead mom university.
In honor & in horror & in case you missed it, my @TeenVogue essay. teenvogue.com/story/success-…
Mar 30, 2021 • 8 tweets • 5 min read
My mom Debbie would have been 65 today. Image
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@its_just_me_gq took her photo for a windy walk around Essex in the UK, to a place called Narnia, a woodland burial park filled with carved animal sculptures that my mom would've loved—and then home for tea 💛 Image
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Dec 18, 2020 • 25 tweets • 10 min read
This year has been bad.
That being said, this has also been the year of one of the loveliest things that's ever happened to me: the chance, because of kind people, and the wonder of the internet, and the magic of mail, and #penpalooza, to send a photo of my mom around the world. It started with a whim—slipping a prayer card from my mom Debbie's funeral in with a letter to a total stranger, trying to vault us both out of the claustrophobia of quarantine and to another land (even if it was just across the river in Brooklyn). My mom always loved to travel.