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My mother always told me I was beautiful inside, but I’m a doctor now and I’ve seen a lot of insides and her words are hollower than bamboo.

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The boat drifted through the night and come the dawn they understood the enormity of their problem. But what if I have to poo? she asked him.

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The sun kissed the horizon and we drove toward the burnt orange sky. She turned up the volume on the radio. And I said, This is how it ends.

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We found each other as the Revolution wound down and the New slowly replaced the Old. But when we kissed in the New manner it totally sucked.

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In my sadness, we discussed: How ugly my father became. What this said about me. The ambivalence of my courage. The manner in which I drove.

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Once, we were an annoyingly happy couple. Car commercial happy. But soon we were running on fumes. Especially after eating her famous beans.

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And then I felt a warmth in my pants, and then I smelled smoke, and then I was dancing the dance of the condemned, and then she walked away.

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We all heard it. The movie was boring and we craved entertainment. Our laughter took over. A pretty woman stood up. Yes it was me, she said.

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We sit down to eat and the food evokes strong memories. I can hear my mother singing. I feel her presence. This is a complicated meal, I say.

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I was shopping for socks and a salesman came up to me and said, These are quite lovely, and I said, I don’t care. I’d never felt more alive.

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