Tag: life
member name: Cheryl C.
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July 01, 2006 04:26 PM EDT --
"You're a long way from Tallahassee," said Bernadette to Burt in the first "Longest Yard" movie. I used to echo that line to my Dad, after he accepted a job in our . . .
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July 14, 2006 11:45 PM EDT --
Oscar and I are about as tight as two occasional companions can be. When we get together every couple of months, it's like no time has passed. Without wasting energy on feeble explanations . . .
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August 09, 2006 11:03 PM EDT --
I first saw the World Trade Center in 1994. It was an ideal Sunday morning, the day before Labor Day, and my best friend and I drove in from Long Island where he still lives. . . .
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November 24, 2006 01:45 PM EST --
I am from the despair of Celtic famine-
A catholic foundling's first born,
Clutching a broken rosary.
I am from the stoicism of Swedish resolve-
Transplanted in the prairie
With . . .
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August 13, 2006 09:11 PM EDT --
Imagine that you're a distance swimmer training for an upcoming event – one that you do not yet know will set a world record. You are seventeen-years-old and swimming in the cool Pacific just . . .
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August 14, 2006 08:03 PM EDT --
"So," I say to my sweet faced neighbor, Sandy, as she hands me another paper towel, "where is Chris, tonight?"
"He's with his dad in North Carolina."
"Coming back . . .
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April 12, 2006 07:40 PM EDT --
Fidgeting like a puppet with frayed strings, my brother waited for the bus on the other side of the street. As usual, he was surrounded by a half-dozen little kids. Although I was only a year older than . . .
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