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All Boy or All Dad?

January 15, 2010

When Benjamin comes back from his father’s house he is a little monster. And that’s putting it nicely. When I ask him to clean his room he says, “NO. You clean it.” When I ask him to pick something up he starts growling, something I am now convinced his father’s girlfriend’s son does. It’s awful. [...]

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My First Time

August 2, 2009

I met the first boy who would break my heart at a party. My legs were crossed and I had a pillow on my lap, my back leaning into the corner of the sofa. Working three jobs over my summer break between my freshman and sophomore years of college I liked this spot in the [...]

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Smiles

June 16, 2009

The radio booth smelled like old men and dusty records but I liked it anyway. When Glenn Miller came on I would start dancing by myself. Dinner in the diner, nothing could be finer. How can you not dance to Chattanooga Choo Choo? My Dad had introduced me to The Glenn Miller Band years earlier. [...]

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