Summer on March 17th, 2007

Free association about funerals:
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Tears are contagious.
And also…
When people die, I spend days processing other deaths in my life. And part of what I resent about being obligated to show up at a funeral (and in this case, sit at the fucking front of the church, where the ghetto funeral people didn’t think to put Kleenex [...]

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Summer on March 14th, 2007

My grandfather died this morning. Today was the day I had planned to go see him. Today was also the school baby shower. yay. A woman who is at least half my size in girth and is due in 4 weeks (I am due in eight) pretended to commiserate with me about how incredibly huge [...]

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Summer on February 1st, 2006

One of my friends lost her mother this weekend, a sudden and cruel invasion of cancer. Just as she was getting used to the very short time they were given to spend together, it got worse and her mom was gone.
Every time I sit down to write, I can’t think of anything funny or [...]

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Summer on November 29th, 2005

-Name changed to protect the innocent (?)
Miles once flew to Oregon from North Carolina with a saddlebag and a bike as checked baggage. The way he told it, when he got to the airport on the other end, he retrieved his bike from baggage claim, put it together in the airport, and rode out the [...]

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Summer on July 19th, 2005

We watched it tonight, and I am sufficiently freaked out and interested. I want to talk to Silas. Thing is, the man fucking hated me when he died, and it’s not like I’ve been singing his praises for the last 12 years. Do I really want to hear from him? Maybe I could think of [...]

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