Arnaud Viviant, who—when he's not on the radio show Masque et la plume—runs the political journal Charles, asked a dozen writers and journalists to imagine the presidential election. What they came up with? Wild. Speculative. Unsettling. "Monstrous?" someone asks. "No, just 2017," comes the reply.
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Keep reading"Everyone needs to define what they want and give themselves the means to reach it." Rain? What rain? / Pretending comes easily after a while, becomes second nature / "For the longest time, I struggled to reveal my vulnerable side"—but eventually, you learn.
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