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Mia flicked ash from the end of her cigarette into the ashtray. The photo had been posted 29 minutes ago, and she couldn’t stop staring...

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Ego In the moment that Daniel quite literally took your breath away, you still heard the alarm in your mother’s voice on the phone in...

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When you picked two fresh gardenias, perfume pumping, packed them in a box to cross a continent, kept from sun, I asked why you’d deliver...

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Step 1: At 20 years old, break off your engagement to a religious fanatic after you start to question God’s existence. Realize that’s...

It’s not every day that your Dad returns from the dead. Not your typical Wednesday night, if you know what I mean. We’re sitting around...

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Interludes I we ‘ve met in happy interlude: As I traipse from one act of suffering to the next I cling to the soft and gentle Walk with...

I know this is love. It has the immediate warmth of a telepathic connection, like when conjoined twins use their own language. We can...

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I remember the yellow afternoon we spent sprawled in the backfield of our old elementary school Your head anointed with a crown of...

16. I spend three afternoons a week in a dance class where I learn some sort of Hip-Hop Bollywood fusion. It has Afrobeat elements. Lots...