I had lied to my mom about not thinking about my own funeral. I’d been planning it since I was a teenager, at least the more fashionable aspects of it, dreaming about it the way some girls imagine what they want their wedding or bachelorette party to look like. Sounds a bit macabre, but I’m a firm believer that one should never leave any major life events to chance or to others.
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Corina Zappia's personal essays and reviews have appeared in TriQuarterly, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Salon, The Rumpus, The Awl, Catapult, Serious Eats, and Gastronomica. A former staff writer for the Village Voice and contributing food critic for The Stranger, she graduated with a BA from the University of Pennsylvania and a nonfiction MFA from Bennington College. She lives in London.