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I Hid My Devastating Skin Disease Because Of Shame. Here’s Why I’m Speaking Out Now.
In a manner of two weeks I went from being a woman tending to a network of drainage stents much like a Vermonter tending maple syrup taps to being pretty much a macrobiotic chef whose only client was herself, but whose care and feeding was still a full time job.
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i’m exhausted from the fear of existing while black
Ibram X Kendi, Ijeoma Oluo, W.E. Dubois, James Baldwin, Alec Baldwin, Tony Morrison, Ntozake Shange, Chinua Achebe, Trevor Noah, Ta Nehisi Coates, ?uestlove, Jean Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, Dr. Wayne Dyer. I carry their words everywhere I go, in hardcover. I want the weight of their life experience to add to the weight of my…
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A Damnable Peck
Cormac McCarthy is the best writer has ever lived a true artist I told him and I won’t stand for no of this race class gender analysis of this story I told the kid. I flicked the tip of his tongue sticking out his eye socket with the tip of my tongue.
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Why I’m Glad I Didn’t Find Love Til I Was Over 40
And luckily, our passions and interests overlap. That’s why we met. We’re both obsessed with skin. I cook it and she studies it. She’s actually a dermatological research scientist who studies hair follicle development. We met when she was finishing up her PHD over at the University of Arkansas.
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I Was Ghosted By a Female Friend and It’s a Terrible Kind of Heartbreak
The pain of not knowing if Alicia was still my friend or not was agonizing in a really terrible way that I just cannot describe. If I had to describe it I would describe it as the earth being in the shadow of the moon.
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Punching Down And Out:
If The Brothers Grimsby were set in America (as maybe The Brothers Elkhart; or The Brothers Ypsilanti— I’m trying to stay in the rustbelt and avoid simple southern stereotypes like The Brothers Lynchburg, Tennesee) Cohen’s character Nobby Butcher and his many fat and drunken mates would very likely have been Trump supporters.