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Title: “The mall is closing in ten minutes, we should leave.”

All photos taken by me.

Liminal spaces have always been a strange comfort to me. There’s something about their emptiness, the echoes of a place once buzzed with life, that makes me so nostalgic. So imagine my surprise when I decided to visit my local mall after a long while, only to find that the Macy’s there was closing down (one of only two left in my entire city, btw).

The original plan was to buy makeup, but wandering through the near-empty store brought back a different kind of nostalgia. You know, the kind of nostalgia that comes with childhood memories of shopping trips with family: browsing, laughing, impulse buys, and making an afternoon out of nothing.

Maybe that’s why I find comfort in these “liminal” spaces; they remind me of a time when everything felt a little more whole.

I didn’t find any makeup, but I did leave with a few pieces of clothing (90% off, no less).