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Dear Sovereign Self · August 17 · 21 min

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Send us Fan Mail In chess notation, it marks the moment a pawn crosses the board and becomes a queen. But I’ve always thought that little equation contained an entire philosophy about transformation. This is an entry about the crossing, the capacity it creates, and the strange autobiography of a queen who remembers moving one square at a time.

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In chess notation, it marks the moment a pawn crosses the board and becomes a queen.

But I’ve always thought that little equation contained an entire philosophy about transformation.

This is an entry about the crossing, the capacity it creates, and the strange autobiography of a queen who remembers moving one square at a time.

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