I. At six, she moves to the town. At thirteen, she is forced out, and at fourteen, she returns. It is no longer the town then, but an outline of what had been the town.
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When I found out my aunt died I smiled. When I told my sister our aunt died I smiled. When Sister found out our aunt died, she thought I was joking. I couldn’t hold it in, I smiled.
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That fall, when my best friend, Iris, is away visiting her grandmother and I am bored, I find myself hanging around with Nancy. She had come to our commune, Sunnyridge, alone in the summer and stayed on for months
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I promised to keep track of my pen, lest it become a tattoo kit. As a treat to end security training, the sergeant showed me the Wall of Fame. Flanked by photos of sheriff deputies recognized for outstanding service, a glass case contained the best arts and crafts confiscated during shakedowns: an elaborate board game, intricate carvings on bars of soap, and a garrote made from toilet paper.
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Dave Grohl takes the final drink of a Coors Light and places it on top of a speaker as he bids goodnight, closing a 2001 Foo Fighters set in St. Louis at The Pageant. Or The Fox; you can’t remember which, but it’s a small venue on The Loop where you tread easily near the stage.
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Draw a circle on the blank page. Put the numbers in first: start with the 12, swing down to the 3, then over to the 6, and finally up to the 9. Draw the other numbers if you want, but they aren’t required.
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asked me what i needed in the moment (this was his first and last sweetness) i asked if he could play Aaliyah i asked if he could play I Care 4 U like how i had imagined it every time i had imagined it it was 2008
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In May of 1985, my first play, Bonds & Options, was in rehearsals at New York University. I was renting a futon in an alcove in Flushing where the cockroaches did compulsory exercises, Gangnam Style, on the kitchen countertops, and I took the 7 train into Manhattan five days a week.
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My hair is coming in faster now. Or I’d never noticed how fast it grew before. I shave my head every winter. Not because everything’s dying and not because everything that pretends to die will come back, but because there’s not much else to do.
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If you want to do damage, you can do it in Target. You can build a small grave for yourself out of five to six items and you can lie in it and die.
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