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Small town America. 5:02 p.m. Crosswalk. Present: older church-goers, two priests, long line of cars, one loud-mouth SUV driving, possibly inebriated woman and her not-embarrassed in any sense of the word lover. Loud-mouth, SUV driving, possibly inebriated woman becomes very, very, angry that her trajectory is being thwarted by the kind, God-praising older folks,...
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whispering bench. who knows what this is?
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So Payless ShoeSource isn’t trendy. But there is no reason why paying pesos for my favorite kicks at the local PSS should send me spiraling downward into an oblivion of 90′s fashion disaster. Why do I spend all that time trimming my ball hair (props tough_love) when a girl won’t even look past my...
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I work in a building in the center of the city in which I live. In fact, to make it easier for verbose people like me, the part of the city in which I work is known to many as “center city.” In this place called center city, my building’s corner is like the...
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By the way, yes, I am aware that I’m not supposed to put quotation marks around text that has been offset with smaller margins. I know this, but I choose to take risks and disregard the rules. I am a risktaker. I’m also aware that you might argue that risktaker is actually two words....
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This from Gail Collins‘ latest Op-Ed in The New York Times: “The vast majority of the scientific community believes that the Large Hadron will not lead to the destruction of all life as we know it. Or at least as Greg Landsberg, a physicist from Brown University, was quoted as saying, the chances are...
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Khaled is truly “the King of Algerian Raï.” But why hadn’t anyone told me about him before the other day. I feel hurt about this. All those concerts for all of these years, and now Khaled is like 50 and I haven’t met him or anything. Better now then never, I guess.
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I write today in a mood of victory as I have just won an important victory over my arch nemesis, a 2001 Ford Focus ZX3. We’ve been fighting for a few years, and while I am confident of ultimate victory I can’t help but wonder: “at what cost?” It wasn’t always like this. We...
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I saw this story on Good Morning America yesterday morning, and I found it a bit controversial. Dog dies during routine traffic stop. Now here are my thoughts.
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Last week, I went to work at a new location. (I was hired as a traveling position so sometimes I travel to different parts of the state for coverage). I had never been to this building before, and as I was leaving at the end of the day, it was suggested to me that...
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