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October 09, 2009 11:51 AM EDT --
I'm pretty!
I remember a sleepover with three of my cousins, two archetypical boys and a tomboy. Even when I was four or so, I felt somehow different, and not simply . . .
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August 08, 2009 02:55 PM EDT --
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I Want to Believe . . .
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August 06, 2009 02:33 PM EDT --
Dragonslaying
"Your plebeian pedestrianization should vociferously annul any preceding inequity in my deportment, bitch."
I hate with a startling . . .
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July 07, 2009 08:06 PM EDT --
Dress Rehearsal
Being Goddesses
I try to exit the dance floor again, moving against the tide of people at 80s Night . In front of me is a drag . . .
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July 07, 2009 04:27 PM EDT --
Paradise Found
Also, Dan is a Communist revolutionary
Dan Kessler and Stephanie took the train from the city. Even though it is only a two-hour, . . .
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May 22, 2009 08:45 PM EDT --
Diet Mountain Dew I signed up for the BzzAgent campaign for Diet Mountain Dew assuming I would soon be getting a couple of coupons for a bottle of the soda and I could test it scientifically through . . .
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April 30, 2009 08:50 PM EDT --
Loving Kindness
I try to keep compassion in my heart. I have no idea what this woman is going through, what door in her life closed to make her what she is today. If . . .
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April 30, 2009 08:26 AM EDT --
Poly Wants a Crack-Up
I was never a fan of the concept of polyamory. I understood that people did it, spent time around those who did (and those who considered it a . . .
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March 29, 2009 10:35 AM EDT --
Woodstock 09
Perhaps the problem is that I would not be conceived for another ten years when it happened. While it is an event that has been shoved down our collective . . .
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February 03, 2009 09:54 PM EST --
7 Deadly Ways Crazy Conspiracy Theorists Could Get Taken Slightly More Seriously on the Internet
Please note, I am not making up a single conspiracy theory below. I truly wish I . . .
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January 22, 2009 09:21 PM EST --
Fear and Trembling in the Hundred Acre Wood
As the more literarily aware of you may know, the estate of A.A. Milne has given permission for the creation of a new series of Winnie the Pooh books. . . .
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January 06, 2009 11:05 PM EST --
Something Borrowed
Emily says -- in that needlessly suspenseful way that I loathe in others but occasionally use myself -- she has something to tell me. It's . . .
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January 04, 2009 03:47 PM EST --
Knowing Everyone
"Your knowing everyone is going to eventually get you in trouble," Hannah insists over her order of lemon chicken at the Chinese restaurant. . . .
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December 20, 2008 06:22 PM EST --
Sister To Sleep
I pull Hannah against me and whisper, "I love you." I hold her a little tighter and can't squeeze the words from her, but instead something . . .
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December 10, 2008 10:05 PM EST --
On Remembering
It is easy to believe the stories we tell ourselves, especially if no one has the evidence that will promptly and definitively contradict our stories. Quickly, . . .
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November 15, 2008 01:11 PM EST --
I'm a Believer
I didn't used to much care about the religion of the person kissing me--as long as their faith didn't preclude more kisses. The interim when I kissed . . .
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November 13, 2008 08:15 PM EST --
On Forgetting
I am listening to an audiobook about a woman who has hyperthymestic syndrome, a condition wherein she has perfect autobiographical recall since she was . . .
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November 04, 2008 08:35 PM EST --
Slouching Towards Atlantis
I look into my rearview mirror at Melanie knitting in the backseat and then over to Hannah , mouth slightly agape as she dozes in the passenger’s seat, . . .
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October 31, 2008 12:39 AM EDT --
Arrogance
As I carry furniture into her house from the front lawn, my mother regales Melanie , seated on a plastic foot rest and knitting, about the one time I had friends over for . . .
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October 15, 2008 10:50 PM EDT --
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Craniosynostosis
I arrive at my mother's house. She is at her computer and she asks if I've heard about Aydan, my new nephew. He is only a . . .
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