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Never Love an Alchoholic, the Requim
Sometime last week, a good friend sent me a Facebook post from the subject of the previous article. It announced that she was leaving the state after 23 years. I had sensed that things might not have been going well. Well, in part because I Google her every few months to keep tabs on where [...]
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Lessons Learned – Never Love an Alcoholic
I met this woman one day online. She lived in a nearby city area and I lived an hour or so away but was looking for work in the her area after the dot.com I worked for went dot.bust.
I placed an ad online to find friends who might show me around. It had worked before, [...]
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Past Tense
I haven’t felt like writing for a while. You know how it goes. Funny how I feel this incredibly deep connection to my family, yet never go home. I was told you can’t go home again. I took it literally I guess.
52 Sundays – #13 – Ruth Roberts*
Six foot tall and “sturdy,” you stood heads and shoulders above your 8th grade classmates. Somehow, after being introduced through a mutual friend, we became the best of friends and would stay that way all the way through high school. We were thick as thieves, birds of a feather, joined at the hip, partners in [...]
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52 Sundays – #12 – Mark Kelly
I met you because you were Paula’s next door neighbor. You were rich too. You were the baby of your mother’s second set of kids. Spoiled, charming, swarthy, handsome and wiry. I always thought of you as kind of a pre-teen James Dean/Dennis Hopper hybrid with your stingray bike with the extended fork and I’m [...]
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