What I read today Aug 2

• A Repeat Performance, the East Village antiques store that collected 38 years of New Yorkers’ stories, Document Journal

• ENGAGING WITH BLACK PREGNANCY OUTSIDE OF HIGH CHILDBIRTH MORTALITY RATES, Wear Your Voice

• Why your Instagram feed is full of wooden baby toys, Mashable

• The Whiter, Richer School District Right Next Door, The Atlantic

• Why Kids Invent Imaginary Friends, The Atlantic

• Father Tries to Grasp How He Could Have Left Twins to Die in Hot Car, NY Times

• Candy Land Was Invented for Polio Wards, The Atlantic

• Dan Gerdeman keeps the conversation going, Columbus Alive

• Dildon’t Disrespect Black Femmes: Our Personal Experiences With Wild Flower Sex Shop, Medium

• Letters of the Damned: Exorcising the Curse of the Petrified Forest, Collectors Weekly