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“Verse-jumpers” can use earpieces to puppet the bodies of their alternate selves, and they can osmose skills from counterparts in other worlds by performing pivotal actions that set their lives on different paths.

After a year and a half of imbibing music almost exclusively alone, I’d forgotten one of the aspects of communal live performance that had been unreproducible as the Covid-19 pandemic stretched on: how the energy of a room can osmose from person to person.

Just as I imagine most parents hope that the best of their qualities, if tendered just right, will osmose into their children, so too does the escarole-munching, kombucha-gulping father entertain the fantasy that with thoughtful culinary nurturing, he can raise a miniature him.

I began to osmose from a neurotic cook with a confusing repertory of ethnic dishes to a relaxed one specializing in faintly Southern food.

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