Alvin has been sleeping in the basement lately, so when I wake up to the sound of him snoring, it makes me feel somewhat nostalgic.
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Please complete your white homework according to parameters and in a timely fashion. If you are hesitant to start working on your white homework, you are already behind.
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Once my Chinese teacher made us read an article about yang lao yuan and then asked, when your parents grow old will you make room in your house for them or will you put them in a nursing home?
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My brother wanted to make magic art, illusion. On the fourth of July the trees were all lit up with fireflies and everything smelled like sweet grass and smoke, our wide wet lawn singed by dropped sparklers and ground spinners.
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Long story short, there was a kid I knew in middle school who rode the bus with me to a sprawl of desert and dirt where his family raised quarter horses, or maybe they were Arabians, and I’d watch him walk down a long dusty road in his creepers, with his saggy bottom jeans
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A small bearded man sits on the porch of his trailer in Fairfield Manor trailer park, Bay City, Michigan. It’s 1987 and the sky is overcast.
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I have done this before, let my face become the animal that it wants. I’ll usually get itchy and self-conscious after a week or two, and shave it to make it smooth again.
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I sit next to Mama on our cracked, brown leather couch, knees drawn into my chest. Gonggong sits on the adjacent couch. What I hear: words flowing out of the large speakers on either side of the TV, in a language foreign to me.
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