Month: December 2022
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like fresh wintered snowweary with other people’s tracksi search for the tread not yet touched or taken it is difficult to walk in someone else’s shoes, certainlyand harder still to bring forth the certainty of your own formation what is true for you will not be true for most, but please, i beg of you…
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lifesavers
she wants us to write about candy and each time i settle enough to try, it feels like i’m drowning in the sea of swirly twirly gumdrops. but then, just this morning on my way to the hot shower i hope will clear my mind & body of everything that isn’t mine while retaining only…
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1995
this is the summer their divorce will be finalized. i’ll have two minor surgeries that same july and remember he isn’t there for either of us. later that same summer, i’ll attend my first unchaperoned music concert at riverside theme park with my best friend, jessie contino. her father will stay in the park but…
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it
not long after my adoption was finalized i made a second neighborhood friend named rebecca whom everyone called becky. we road the big yellow school bus together and were in the same grade at our small-town elementary school. some years we even had the same teacher. becky was chubby in a ‘childhood is sweet’ kind-of-way…
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