How Saving $2 on Gas Made Me Feel Like a Real Adult

It’s all about appreciating the things I have control over.

Eve Peyser

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Photo by Antoine de Decker on Unsplash

It was almost a decade after I became a legal adult that I finally felt like one. About a year ago, I was on my way to a nice patch of desert, 25 minutes east of my home in south Reno, and I had about a third of a tank of gas in my car. My boyfriend asked if we should fill up…

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Eve Peyser

nyc native living in the pnw. read my writing in the new york times, nymag, vice, and more.