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Nicole Hazan is a writer and high school English teacher. From 2021 — 2022, Nicole studied UEA’s MA in prose fiction, where she graduated with distinction. A Pushcart Prize nominee, her short fiction has appeared in The New Orleans Review, New Letters and Jewish Fiction, among others. She lives in Tel Aviv with her husband and twin daughters, where she is writing a novel, a psychological thriller set in Israel. This essay is one of a series she has written in collaboration with ReGrow Israel.