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The Importance of People-Watching

Savala Nolan
Human Parts
Published in
4 min readSep 30, 2023

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A man sat at a cafe drinking a cup of coffee. He might have been reading the newspaper. He might have been painting, using a brush to dab water onto cakes of color. He might have been writing in a journal. I like that third one. Let’s go with that.

A man sat at a cafe drinking a cup of coffee and writing in his journal. He might have been scribbling angrily, brows furrowed, ignoring his coffee as it went…

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Savala Nolan
Human Parts

uc berkeley law professor and essayist @ vogue, time, harper’s, NYT, NPR, and more | Simon & Schuster and HarperCollins | she/her | IG @notquitebeyonce