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- Women smirk at baldness. How adorable would they find it if they began to lose their breasts in their late twenties? If both tits just…
- Freshly brainwashed from rehab, I carry the bottle into the bathroom. I hold it up to the light. See the pretty bottle? Isn't it beautiful?…
- My parents had this relationship that was really terrifying. I mean, the level of hatred that they had, and the level of physical abuse -…
- As a writer, you can't allow yourself the luxury of being discouraged and giving up when you are rejected, either by agents or publishers. You…
- In the opening to the Mary Tyler Moore Show Mary's in the supermarket, hurrying through the aisles. She pauses at the meat case, picks up…
- Although I was able to maintain a pleasant expression, I was mentally throwing up in her face.
- So that's what I'm here to become. And suddenly, this word fills me with a brand of sadness I haven't felt since childhood. The kind…
- The only other people who have had experiences similar to those of this man were locked up inside institutions for the criminally insane. The difference…
- I think part of the reason I'm attracted to Foster is because he's such a mess. I mean, the people I have loved in my…
- After I got my coffee, I leaned against a stop sign and sipped, pretending it was a normal day and I was only up this…
- I missed him so much that I had physical sensations of loss, all over my body. Like one minute I was missing an arm, the…
- Most everybody had made at least one bad, drunken decision in their lives. Called an ex at two in the morning. Or perhaps has a…
- It terrified me to consider: What if, as a grown-up, I craved another body beside me as still as this one? What then?
- As a young child I had Santa and Jesus all mixed up. I could identify Coke or Pepsi with just one sip, but I could…
- You would be amazed by what you can give up, lose, or break, and yet still be a person who gets happy over brownies.
- With my own memoirs, they are truthful, and I write everything fully expecting to some day end up televised on Court TV, and I'm fully…
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