Notes From The Wild: Essays by Nicole Alvarez

Notes From The Wild: Essays by Nicole Alvarez

The Friendly Ghost

And A Good Head Of Hair.

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Nicole Alvarez
Oct 14, 2025
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Everyone experiences that one love that promises you everything and delivers nothing. It’s the kind that makes the world suddenly make sense, and then ensures it never will again. We all go through at least one internal funeral when those promises collapse. You knew they would, of course. We always do.

My last relationship, if you can even call it that, …

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