The beautiful fiction of Disneyland

Inside my obsession with the Happiest Place on Earth

A nostalgic escape.
(Image credit: Joshua Rainey / Alamy Stock Photo)

I think I've been to Disneyland 20 times since November. I live in Orange County, about 15 minutes from the park, and most days I wait till school is out so I can take my daughters with me. But I also go alone.

I'm 36.

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Mary Birnbaum is a writer living in Orange County, California. She is the blog editor and editor of the Diana Woods Memorial Prize for nonfiction at Lunch Ticket, the literary journal of Antioch University Los Angeles. Mary is on Twitter: @ailishbirnbaum.