Finding the Magic in Macy’s by Jessica Machado For my thirtieth birthday, my boyfriend offered to take me to Macy’s. “You can pick out whatever” were his instructions. Lee’s sweet-yet-strange proposal was a culmination of our urban, chosen destitution (we were living off my graduate school loans and his fourth-career sales job in Portland, Oregon), my vocalized disappointment (he had shown up to my birthday party empty-handed), and a quick fix (he was trying to shut me up and had […]