I found love in a hopeless place

Spoiler alert: it was a muddy graveyard hill 🪦🫙💖

Ariel Meadow Stallings
16 min readMar 25, 2024

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Seattle’s Lakeview Cemetery. All photos by the author.

CHAPTER 1: Lakeview Cemetery

I don’t know why it took me so long to appreciate Seattle’s Lakeview Cemetery. I’ve lived in my neighborhood off and on since 1997, and sometimes it feels like I know Capitol Hill’s cracks and crevices like the veins on the backs of my own hands.

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Ariel Meadow Stallings

I'm a product manager at Medium, but I'm also a whole-ass person living life: author, publisher, devotional dancer, Seattleite, mom, and just a human humanning.