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I took this picture about one year and one week ago today, when I was working at a candy store for a few months after finding myself suddenly without a job in August. I don’t know why I never posted it, but figured today would be a fitting occasion, as I’ve now commemorated the whole weird experience—mostly in terms of my love for Darlene Love’s “Marshmallow World”—in a post for the Paris Review blog. (It’s 64 degrees and raining right now so I am yearning hardcore for last year’s amazing perfect Christmas weather but not for all the candy-slinging that preceded it.)