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I don't know if I'm going to get Alzheimer's, but know I don‘t want to. That's why I just read “100 Simple Things You Can Do To Prevent Alzheimer's“ by medical journalist Jean Carper. Doing simple things is something I'm good at. And while I'm…
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Cellulite is legal to have, either way.
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I watched you knee deep in water with a little boy you were hitting.
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Another Saturday in April. Another set of scars.
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Joaquin Phoenix has inspired me to quit writing and purse my true lifelong passion.
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“ I told you what she said, that she liked me better when I was drinking. Well, that's the way I feel, too. I liked her better when I was drinking.”
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When she told me to write itI did; I scratched out what I wanted to sayin quick print letters. Not all of it.I could never get it all out in an hour but thegeneral idea was definitely there. We had to finish it in the rain becausewe couldn't light the…
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When I was 10 or 11, some people thought that my father was my grandfather, that my brother was my father, and that my mother was my sister!
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Lately he's been wanting to write about love...
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The Karaoke Girls are not appreciated. Not nearly enough and not often enough.
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Your place is extra.
No it isn't.
It is, baby.
The man was as aroused by her discomfort as he had been annoyed by her laugh. She wasn't laughing now.
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We've talked often about that night, where six hours of our life disappeared, about our shared experience, and the big question of why.
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In Your Absence the yard-cat, Flower, has started sleeping on top of the fridge
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The Numbers will never romp up the stairs from the laundry room to slip warm socks on your feet on a winter’s night.
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The man went into his backpack and pulled out his book of crossword puzzles. The deluxe edition with fifty percent more puzzles for free. It had been an impulse buy from the bookstore, cost him four…
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You can use your shoelaces or an Ace bandage. Loop a belt around your neck and toss the loose end over a shower curtain or closet pole. Pull. Try to lift yourself off the ground.
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I kept a journal
for so many years
I've forgotten
everything I wrote.
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this reaching, this striving to love like it's there becoming something we need.
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A junkyard Bison seems an odd choice over the usual dog, but it did the job--trampling trespassers, vagrants and unautorized salvagers with a violent and admirable efficiency
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"I'll tell you one thing I don't want to see, armed confrontation, leading to domestic warfare."
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The truth about the bird and the snake is this. They are dead. And me? I cannot stop thinking about them.
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Having read the poetry of Dennison
I hereby give up writing.
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Someone will labor to keep it alive/
although the body will want but/
to return to random particles
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They had been wintering on the Cape under gunmetal skies...
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Dad must have walked around with me 20 times, the store closed around us and finally he said I could have one. They were all in different poses and sizes, with black spots. Except one. One had silver spots.
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Particles flung by the sun
pierce us through, undetected
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It might not seem easy to breathe any love into a name like Father. It’s a stiff word—it’s not soft, like, say, Papa—but sometimes you have to breathe love into names you don’t choose.
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In a corner of a neighbor’s land too stony to till Cob makes a mystery.
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