🎭 Culture Jun 25, 2026 · Lisa Carver

The Mudder, the Lawyer, the Prince, and Mr. Wrong

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Glowing tree mold photographed after the October 1968 eruption of Kilauea volcano in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. Courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey, via Wikimedia Commons. Licensed under CC BY 2.0.
In 2015 I was dating three fellows at once. A mudder, a lawyer, and a prince.
The mudder was Greek and on weekdays he did something with computers in a sealed room where dust meant ruination, and on weekends he’d train to race in this extreme obstacle course where you had to crawl under barbed

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