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Given an absence from writing for nonpretentious, I’d like to thank all of you for your readership and share with all of you a story of recent and ongoing events. As per my absence, following a semi-serious bout of depression over an ongoing health problem, I have become somewhat of a hermit. Don’t get...
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Nothing helps being delayed on the runway for 120 minutes like reading Tim O’Brien’s horrifically indepth and artfully crafted description of one of his squadmates in Vietnam drowning in a lake of human feces.  Like Requiem for a Dream, its one of those painfully awesome stories that you like and respect, but will probably only want...
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A few years later and I’m back. Back inside this shit-hole; my modern day Auschwitz. I have a two month old baby whom I would rather be looking after, but my husband has tyrannized me again. His mother (who has materialised from a distant country) and my psychiatrist are in on it too. They...
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I think I was born bipolar. The depression of duality. My mother said that I gave two short cries at birth (one for each personality, as she terms it) and then fell silent. My zodiac sign too, Gemini, is the sign of duality: The Twins My mum took unbridled pleasure in reminding me throughout...
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In search of some last minute Mother’s Day gifts?
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Sazz Vintage in Old City, Philadelphia is by far the best spot for vintage apparel and accessories. The owner and assistants are the nicest and they will invite you to their warehouse sales in Port Richmond where you can jump into piles of vintage like the leaves your dad would rake on a fall...
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I am now at a precipice. This isn’t a metaphor for anything. I’m literally at a precipice. Below me is a double-black diamond run. It’s called Spanky’s Ladder. I had to hike uphill about 120 feet to get here. That may not seem like much, but at an altitude of 9,000 feet there is...
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The blog’s entire purpose is right there in the title.  And the admin, Zoo With Roy, doesn’t care how many MS Paint art pieces, penguins, lion cubs, and images of baseball’s best pitcher it takes to convince you that his dream will one day come to what will most likely be a hilariously awkward...
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It’s curious business bumping into people from our pasts. People whom we haven’t seen since school; people whom we haven’t thought of in decades and because of that lack of constancy have faded into the obscurity of our minds, along with a myriad of other half-forgotten memories. Then, when we do see them, eons...
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Sure, we can pretend it's surprising that you're being incarcerated.
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