Americans Live Parallel Lives

We can live next door to each other, but still be worlds apart

Amber Fraley
4 min readMar 15, 2022

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Photo by Engin Akyurt, Pixabay

I’ve been a journalist for over 20 years now, and I’m ashamed to say I used to do journalism very wrong. See, I’m a white lady who’s always worked for white-owned publications. Naturally, we covered the people most interested in our publications: Other white people.

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Amber Fraley

Writing about abortion rights, mental illness, trauma, narcissistic abuse & survival, politics. Journalist, novelist, wife, mom, Kansan, repro rights activist.