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- I am suddenly comsumed by nostalgia for the little girl who was me, who loved the fields and believed in God, who spent winter days…
- The space that I can call mine.. is so small that my ideas have become small. I am like a caterpillar in a cocoon of…
- When you live with a woman you learn something every day. So far I have learned that long hair will clog up the shower drain…
- The hardest lesson is Clare’s solitude. Sometimes I come home and Clare seems kind of irritated; I’ve interrupted some train of thought, broken into the…
- Mom had just gotten back from Sydney, and she had brought me an immense, surpassingly blue butterfly, Papilio ulysses, mounted in a frame filled with…
- The engagement ring is an emerald, and the dim light from the window is refracted green and white in it. The rings are silver, and…
- I sit quietly and think about my mom. It's funny how memory erodes, If all I had to work from were my childhood memories, my…
- We didn't think the library was funny looking in it's faux- Greek splendor, nor did we find the cuisine limited or bland, or the movies…
- Have you ever found your heart's desire and then lost it? I had seen myself, a portrait of myself as a reader. My childhood: days…
- Even her name seemed empty, as though it had detached itself from her and was floating untethered in his mind. How am I supposed to…
- Martin said, "It feels as though part of my self has detached and gone to Amsterdam, where it—she—is waiting for me. Do you know about…
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