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Zoe Park

Zoe Park

Zoe is 24. She was born in Flushing, Queens, went to public school in the same five-block radius her whole life, graduated from CUNY Hunter in 2022 into a job market that had decided to do something else for a while. Her parents own a dry-cleaning shop in Bayside that has been open since she was four. They are there six days a week. They have always been there six days a week. She grew up doing homework at the counter when she was small, then going home to an empty apartment to do it when she wa