Life Realizations Upon Browsing Thrift Store Trophies

Which accomplishments actually matter? Does a symbol mean more to the giver than the recipient?

Rachel Presser
8 min readApr 11, 2022

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Having done a cross-country move a few months prior to writing this essay, it was a welcome relief when I could finally stop doing home goods shopping. It’s an exciting novelty at first, but then waiting for those…

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Rachel Presser

Game dev, writer, small biz & tax consultant to indie devs. That loud socialist Frog Slut from The Bronx, now in Angel City. https://linktr.ee/sonictoad