Let This Be the Last Time

Ijeoma Oluo and Gabriel Teodros in their new space.

A flashlight beam illuminates dishes still on the counter from a breakfast four months ago. That was the morning Ijeoma Oluo and Gabriel Teodros ran out of their blue house in Shoreline, shoeless, him not thinking to grab his phone. 

A layer of sediment on the windows seals out the daylight. The couple walks floors warped by water from firehoses and points their flashlight at things now gone, even if they still exist. Oluo takes pictures of the spines of her books. Every page is illegible; the smell is awful. “I can’t save these,” she realizes. The images, at least, help

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