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Amal El-Mohtar
May 30, 2018
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I sometimes forget to eat when I'm on deadline. This is partly because I usually drink coffee when I'm on deadline, and coffee suppresses my appetite at the same time it encourages hyperfocus, so I'm doubly distracted from the physical reality of needing to consume food. 

All to say that when I turned in my next column for the New York Times -- it'll be …

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