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WELCOME TO PC# 10: THE LOST & FOUND ISSUE

"LIFE IS AN UNENDING GAME OF HIDE AND SEEK."
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Life is an unending game of hide and seek.

​We develop skills and abilities as we grow from infancy only to see them diminish as we reach old age. We gain friends and lovers and lose them, with people vanishing into that mysterious place where single socks also go missing.

The ones we loved the most haunt us like phantom limbs.

We revel in the serendipitous discovery of money on the sidewalk, only to be brought down by the realization that we've lost our wallets.

Our scientific, moral, and spiritual knowledge bases have each grown exponentially. We know enough to know better, and yet that knowledge cannot keep us from falling back; from acting like animals and repeating our Holocausts.

​It seems we're constantly looking, and losing sight during the process. 
Header art by T. Guzzio and M. Guzzio.

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RECLAMATION

RAE PADILLA FRANCOEUR SHOWS HOW OUR SEARCH TO FIND OURSELVES THROUGH THE THINGS WE GATHER EXTENDS EVEN TO THE HOMELESS.

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A SEASON AMONG HUMANS

A BLUE JAY COMES INTO BEN ADELMAN'S LIFE AND TEACHES A LESSON ABOUT LEAVING THE NEST.

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THE GOP WOULD LEGISLATE THE LGBT COMMUNITY INTO OBLIVION

CHRISTOPHER MATTERA LOOKS AT HOW LINCOLN'S PARTY GOT LOST ON THE FREEDOM TRAIL.

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TRASH BAG WITH A FACE

VINCE RAPPA'S POEM IS A PLAYFUL EXPLORATION OF LOSING YEARS AND FINDING - SOMETHING?​

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THE DAY I LOST MY FITNESS TRACKER

CATHY WEISS TELLS A STORY OF HOW LOSING SOMETHING CAN BE INDISTINGUISHABLE FROM LOSING SOMEONE.​

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DIRT TO DUST

IN SUZANNE BOUCHER'S POEM THE MATTER THAT MAKES UP A FAMILY IS NEITHER CREATED NOR DESTROYED.​

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LOST & FOUND CANYON

CHRISTOPHER MATTERA AND FRIENDS GET, WELL, LOST AND FOUND IN THE DESERT SOUTHWEST.

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WHEN LOSING MEANS FINDING

REVEREND CINDY ANTONUK DIDN'T FIND HER PATH UNTIL SHE LOST HER MOTHER.​

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TWO SONGS

BEN ADELMAN SHARES TWO COMPOSITIONS ABOUT THINGS WE GAIN AND LOSE WITH TIME.​

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GHOSTS

​THIS SONNET BY TOM GUZZIO IS INSPIRED BY WHAT REMAINS AFTER THE OLYMPIC TORCH IS EXTINGUISHED.

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