Goodbye to All of Them
People leave New York City all the time. It takes a special brand of narcissism to believe this big-old city cares why you left.
Megan Carpentier
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Megan Carpentier is a writer and editor whose work has been published Glamour, Esquire, Rolling Stone, The New Republic, The Week, The Baffler, Ms., the Washington Post and the comic book Bitch Planet, among others. She's probably the only person to have simultaneous bylines in Foreign Policy and Us Weekly.
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