Daily Archives Tuesday, December 2008

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Here is another example of my life (rather this isn’t an example, it is a story; I want to say a parable, but I know that too is wrong): ninth grade. The first time I got drunk purposefully. (Once, in fifth grade, I had without trying.) I had gone over to a neighbor’s house because [...]

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I’m sitting here now, typing, in a small room. Years have passed since the previous paragraph; the keyboard feels strange under my fingers. Between the time I wrote the previous sentence and the time I’m sitting here editing it. Time moves. I can’t stop it. Years pass and I’m older and people expect me to [...]