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My dad and I were in the kitchen, bent over the table while he tried to help me with my trigonometry homework--which, PS, addled my brain and has yet in life to reveal its practical application.
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Is there anyone dearer than the children of people you love, especially when you don't have your own?
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They were eager to get rid of me at Mount Sinai Hospital. I had only a "catastrophic" health insurance policy (private insurance is expensive and I never get sick) and there was some debate over whether hitting your head on a sidewalk after passing out from what amounts to a panic attack was exactly catastrophic. There was some debate over the meaning of the word and whether it was the incident or the result of the incident that had to be l..
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There are so few silent spaces in this modern world; I have learned to relish the gift of insomnia.
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How can you desire someone who hurts you? How can you miss him so much your body aches? Maybe not him, the man he actually was, but the man I thought he was. We cling to our ideas of people, don't we? We hold on tight even when all evidence points to something else.
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