PERFECT PLACES, ANYWAY | Anna Myers writes about exit velocity, the impact of leaving and the rush of staying.

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FIFTY-FOUR MEALS | A meal in South Korea made Alex Lemon confront her shame about loneliness.

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GOODBYE TOPSHOP | Emily Tucker shares how a wardrobe clearout helped her grow up.

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Crunch

Molly Alessandra Cooper finds pleasure in the discomfort of food – sticky, salty and gooey. Read More

Being a Daughter (Without a Mum)

Charlea Glanville writes about the courage she's found in herself since the passing of her mother. Read More

Do It Yourself

After surviving a brain tumour, Izzy Rogers begins to piece a life back together – and it starts with a little DIY. Read More

Three Hundred and Ninety-Eight Point Two Miles

Samantha Blaney muses on family, identity and all the many ways that we keep connected, in this beautiful essay – our final piece for the theme. Read More

It All Comes Down to This

What does it mean to be powerful as a woman? Lou Ramsay discusses the emotional and the acceptable in a brilliant essay to open 2018 on DD. Read More

Those Days

By Nadia Henderson

'The old me lives in a box under the bed.' Read More

C.M.V.

Fall in deep with Sam Naomi's piece on her love, and how 'always' to her means being able to look into the same pair of eyes for the rest of her life. Read More