watching QVC as leisure/bonding activity

i wrote an essay for Longreads about one of the greatest and most complex joys in my life: "When I talk about QVC, people are baffled by my interest in it. To them, it seems like a relic, something whose relevance is shriveling up. On the contrary: We are all living inside the world that QVC made, the commingling of identity and acquisition. We occupy our homes like amnesiacs, trying to figure out who we are by looking around at what we own. For me, QVC applies an unexpected salve to the woun...